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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

Summary

We set about trying to explain what Material Design is, a design language with paper and ink in mind. After that, we looked at the most well-known implementations of Material Design.

Next, we put most of our focus on Angular Material, the Material Design implementation meant for Angular, and how it consists of different components. We looked at a hands-on explanation of how to install it, set it up, and even how to use some of its core components and themes.

We also learned about the core of Angular Material, which is the Angular CDK, and demonstrated some of its style-aware components.

Time was also spent covering other aspects of styling, such as how to design the layout of our app using flexbox and the Angular Flex Layout library.

Hopefully, you will have read this chapter and found that you now have a grasp of Material Design in general and Angular Material in particular, and can determine whether it is a good match for your next Angular app. In the next chapter...