Summary

That’s it! Your journey into the world of Angular has just begun. Let’s recap the features that you have learned so far. We learned what Angular is, looked over the brief history of the framework, and examined the benefits of using it for web development.

We saw how to set up our development workspace and find the tools to bring TypeScript into the game. We introduced the Angular CLI tool, the Swiss army knife for Angular, which automates specific development tasks. We used some of the most common commands to scaffold our first Angular application. We also examined the structure of our application and learned how to interact with it.

Our first application gave us a basic understanding of how Angular works internally to render our application on a web page. We embarked on our journey, starting with the main HTML file of an Angular application. We saw how Angular parses that file and starts searching the component tree to load the main component. We learned the process of Angular bootstrapping and how it is used to load the application configuration.

Finally, we met some of the most important Angular tools that could empower you as a software developer. We explored how to use Angular DevTools to inspect Angular applications and VSCode Debugger for debugging. We also examined VSCode Profiles and how it can help us maintain a consistent development environment across our team.

In the next chapter, you will learn some of the basics of the TypeScript language. The chapter will cover what problems can be solved by introducing types and the language itself. TypeScript, as a superset of JavaScript, contains a lot of powerful concepts and marries well with the Angular framework, as you are about to discover.