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Angular Projects - Third Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
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Book Image

Angular Projects - Third Edition

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By: Aristeidis Bampakos

Overview of this book

Angular Projects isn't like other books on Angular – this is a project-based guide that helps budding Angular developers get hands-on experience while developing cutting-edge applications. In this updated third edition, you’ll master the essential features of the framework by creating ten different real-world web applications. Each application will demonstrate how to integrate Angular with a different library and tool, giving you a 360-degree view of what the Angular ecosystem makes possible. Updated to the newest version of Angular, the book has been revamped to keep up with the latest technologies. You’ll work on a PWA weather application, a mobile photo geotagging application, a component UI library, and other exciting projects. In doing so, you’ll implement popular technologies such as Angular Router, Scully, Electron, Angular service workers, Jamstack, NgRx, and more. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to build Angular apps using a variety of different technologies according to your or your client’s needs.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Integrating Angular Universal

Angular Universal is an Angular library that enables an Angular CLI application to be rendered on the server. An SSR application increases the loading speed of an Angular application and improves the loading of the first page.To install Angular Universal in an existing Angular CLI application, we will use the following command of the Angular CLI:

ng add @nguniversal/express-engine

The previous command uses the ng add command of the Angular CLI to install the @nguniversal/express-engine npm package. The @nguniversal/express-engine package is the heart of the Angular Universal library and consists of a Node.js Express web server at its core.When we execute the preceding command to install Angular Universal, we are not only installing the library but also modifying our Angular CLI workspace with the following files:

  • angular.json: This creates new entries in the architect section to build and enable our Angular Universal application. One of these entries is...