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Angular Projects

By : Zama Khan Mohammed
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Angular Projects

By: Zama Khan Mohammed

Overview of this book

<p>Angular is one of the best frameworks, not only for building web applications, but also for building applications on other platforms such as desktop and mobile. It is packed with amazing web tools that allow developers to become more productive and make the development experience a happier one </p><p>This book will be your practical guide when it comes to building optimized web apps using Angular. The book explores a number of popular features, including the experimental Ivy rendered, lazy loading, and differential loading, among others, in the projects. It starts with the basics of Angular and its tools, which will help you to develop and debug Angular applications. You will learn how to create an SPA using Angular Router, and optimize it by code splitting and Preloading Routes. We will then build a form-heavy application and make forms reactive by using Reactive Forms. After that, we will learn how to build a Progressive Web App, and a server-side rendering app, as well as a MonoRepo app. Furthermore, we will also dive into building mobile apps using Ionic and NativeScript. Finally, we end the book by creating a component library for our application using Angular CDK and then testing it. </p><p>By the end of this book, you’ll have gained comprehensive insights into using Angular, along with hands-on experience in creating intuitive real-world applications.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Foreword

Theming the Ionic application

Being able to easily customize the theme of a component library is one of the important factors when it comes to the adoption of a component library. Ionic not only makes it easy to customize—it also provides tools to make the process much simpler.

Ionic uses CSS variables to theme the application. It also provides a Color Generator tool (https://ionicframework.com/docs/theming/color-generator), which can be used to customize the application.

Let's change the Primary color to #002544 in the Color Generator tool, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, scroll down and copy the CSS variables that were produced by this application and paste them into the src/theme/variables.scss file.

Let's go ahead and use the primary color for the toolbar on our home page, in the home.component.html file:

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