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Learning Angular - Third Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman
Book Image

Learning Angular - Third Edition

By: Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman

Overview of this book

Angular, loved by millions of web developers around the world, continues to be one of the top JavaScript frameworks thanks to its regular updates and new features that enable fast, cross-platform, and secure frontend web development. With Angular, you can achieve high performance using the latest web techniques and extensive integration with web tools and integrated development environments (IDEs). Updated to Angular 10, this third edition of the Learning Angular book covers new features and modern web development practices to address the current frontend web development landscape. If you are new to Angular, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you get you up and running in no time. 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. The book is especially useful for beginners to get to grips with the bare bones of the framework needed to start developing Angular apps. 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 (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Angular
4
Section 2: Components – the Basic Building Blocks of an Angular App
9
Section 3: User Experience and Testability
15
Section 4: Deployment and Practice

Chapter 7: Navigate through Components with Routing

In previous chapters, we did a great job of separating concerns and adding different layers of abstraction to increase the maintainability of an Angular 10 app. However, we have barely concerned ourselves with the user experience that we provide through the app.

Currently, our user interface is bloated with components scattered across a single screen. We need to provide a better navigational experience and a logical way to change the application's view intuitively. Now is the right time to incorporate routing and split the different areas of interest into different pages that are interconnected by a grid of links and URLs.

So, how do we deploy a navigation scheme between components of an Angular 10 app? We use the Angular router that was built with componentization in mind and create custom links to make our components react to them.

In this chapter, we will do the following:

  • Discover how to define routes to...