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Learning Angular - Fourth Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman
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Book Image

Learning Angular - Fourth Edition

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By: Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman

Overview of this book

As Angular continues to reign as one of the top JavaScript frameworks, more developers are seeking out the best way to get started with this extraordinarily flexible and secure framework. Learning Angular, now in its fourth edition, will show you how you can use it to achieve cross-platform high performance with the latest web techniques, extensive integration with modern web standards, and integrated development environments (IDEs). The book is especially useful for those new to Angular and will help you to get to grips with the bare bones of the framework to start developing Angular apps. You'll learn how to develop apps by harnessing the power of the Angular command-line interface (CLI), write unit tests, style your apps by following the Material Design guidelines, and finally, deploy them to a hosting provider. Updated for Angular 15, this new edition covers lots of new features and tutorials that address the current frontend web development challenges. You’ll find a new dedicated chapter on observables and RxJS, more on error handling and debugging in Angular, and new real-life examples. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be able to create Angular applications with TypeScript from scratch, but also enhance your coding skills with best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Introducing the component lifecycle

Lifecycle events are hooks that allow us to jump into specific stages in the lifecycle of a component and apply custom logic. They are optional to use but might be of valuable help if you understand how to use them.

Some hooks are considered best practices, while others help debug and understand what happens in an Angular application. A hook comes with an interface that defines a method we need to implement. The Angular framework ensures the hook is called, provided we have implemented this method in the component.

Defining the interface in the component is not obligatory, but it is considered a good practice. Angular cares only about whether we have implemented the actual method or not.

The most basic lifecycle hooks of an Angular component are:

  • OnInit: This is called when a component is initialized
  • OnDestroy: This is called when a component is destroyed
  • OnChanges: This is called when...