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Angular Projects - Third Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
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Book Image

Angular Projects - Third Edition

5 (2)
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

Interacting with the clipboard

The Angular CDK library contains a collection of Angular artifacts that we can use to interact with the system clipboard. Specifically, it includes a directive for copying data to the clipboard and an event binding for taking additional action when the content has been copied. Let's see how we can integrate both in our component library, as follows:

  1. Execute the following command of the Angular CLI to create a new Angular component in the library:
ng generate component copy-button --project=ui-controls --export
  1. Export the newly generated component from the public-api.ts file as follows:
export * from './lib/copy-button/copy-button.component';
  1. Open the ui-controls.module.ts file and import ClipboardModule from the @angular/cdk/clipboard namespace, like this:
import { ClipboardModule } from '@angular/cdk/clipboard';
  1. Add the ClipboardModule class to the imports array of the @NgModule decorator like this:
@NgModule({
 ...