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Angular Cookbook

By : Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz
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Angular Cookbook

By: Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz

Overview of this book

The Angular framework, powered by Google, is the framework of choice for many web development projects built across varying scales. It’s known to provide much-needed stability and a rich tooling ecosystem for building production-ready web and mobile apps. This recipe-based guide enables you to learn Angular concepts in depth using a step-by-step approach. You’ll explore a wide range of recipes across key tasks in web development that will help you build high-performance apps. The book starts by taking you through core Angular concepts such as Angular components, directives, and services to get you ready for building frontend web apps. You’ll develop web components with Angular and go on to cover advanced concepts such as dynamic components loading and state management with NgRx for achieving real-time performance. Later chapters will focus on recipes for effectively testing your Angular apps to make them fail-safe, before progressing to techniques for optimizing your app’s performance. Finally, you’ll create Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Angular to provide an intuitive experience for users. By the end of this Angular book, you’ll be able to create full-fledged, professional-looking Angular apps and have the skills you need for frontend development, which are crucial for an enterprise Angular developer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Chapter 12: Performance Optimization in Angular

Performance is always a concern in any product that you build for end users. It is a critical element in increasing the chances of someone using your app for the first time becoming a customer. Now, we can't really improve an app's performance until we identify potential possibilities for improvement and the methods to achieve this. In this chapter, you'll learn some methods to deploy when it comes to improving Angular applications. You'll learn how to analyze, optimize, and improve your Angular app's performance using several techniques. Here are the recipes we're going to cover in this chapter:

  • Using OnPush change detection to prune component subtrees
  • Detaching the change detector from components
  • Running async events outside Angular with runOutsideAngular
  • Using trackBy for lists with *ngFor
  • Moving heavy computation to pure pipes
  • Using web workers for heavy computation
  • Using...