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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

Building a draggable card list

The first component of our UI library will be a list of Bulma card elements. Each card will display a title, a description, and an anchor link element. We will also be able to drag a card and change the order of the card list using the Angular CDK. Building our component will consist of the following tasks:

  • Displaying card data
  • Adding drag-and-drop functionality

In the following section, we will first see how to display data on the card list.

Displaying card data

Our Angular application should pass a list of cards as an input property to the component for displaying them. Let's see how we can create a draggable card component as follows:

  1. Execute the following Angular CLI command to create an Angular component:
ng generate component card-list --project=ui-controls --export
  1. The preceding command will create a card-list component in the ui-controls project of our Angular CLI workspace. The --export option will also export the component from UiControlsModule...