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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

Creating a library with the Angular CLI

Before we can start working with Angular libraries using the Angular CLI, we need to create an Angular CLI workspace. The Angular CLI workspace will contain our Angular library and an Angular application for testing the library.Use the following command to generate a new Angular CLI workspace:

ng new my-components --defaults

The preceding command will create a new Angular CLI workspace that contains an Angular application named my-components. Navigate to the my-components folder and execute the following command to generate a new Angular library:

ng generate library ui-controls

The preceding command will create a ui-controls library inside the projects folder of the workspace. It will contain various files and folders similar to those when creating an Angular application, including the following:

  • src\lib: This contains the source code of the library, such as modules, components, and services.
  • src\public-api.ts: This exports artifacts from the...