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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

Introducing Angular Material

The Angular Material library was developed to implement Material Design for the Angular framework. It promotes itself with the following features:

  • Sprint from zero to app: The intention is to make it very easy for you as an app developer to hit the ground running. The amount of effort in setting it up should be minimal.
  • Fast and consistent: Performance has been a significant focus point, and it is guaranteed to work well on all major browsers.
  • Versatile: There are a multitude of themes that should be easy to customize, and there is also great support for localization and internationalization.
  • Optimized for Angular: The fact that the Angular team itself has built it means that the support for Angular is a big priority.

The library is split into the following parts:

  • Components: There are a ton of UI components in place to help you be successful, such as different kinds of input, buttons, layout, navigation, modals, and different...