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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)

Moving heavy computation to pure pipes

In Angular, we have a particular way of writing components. Since Angular is heavily opinionated, we already have a lot of guidelines from the community and the Angular team on what to consider when writing components—for example, making HTTP calls directly from a component is considered a not-so-good practice. Similarly, if we have heavy computation in a component, this is also not considered a good practice. And when the view depends upon a transformed version of the data using a computation constantly, it makes sense to use Angular pipes. In this recipe, you'll learn how to use Angular pure pipes to avoid heavy computation within components.

Getting ready

The project we are going to work with resides in Chapter12/start_here/using-pure-pipes, inside the cloned repositor:

  1. Open the project in VS Code.
  2. Open the terminal and run npm install to install the dependencies of the project.
  3. Run the ng serve -o command...