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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 10: Giving Motion to Components with Animations

Nowadays, animations are one of the cornerstones of modern user experience design. Far from just representing visual eye candy to beautify the UI, they have become an essential part of the visual narrative. Animations pave the way to convey messages in a non-intrusive way, becoming a powerful tool for informing the user about the underlying processes and events that happen while they interact with an application, thus enhancing the application's user experience. Animations are language-agnostic, not necessarily bound to a single device or environment (web, desktop, or mobile). In other words, animations are here to stay, and Angular has a strong commitment to this aspect of modern visual development.

With all modern browsers embracing the newest features of CSS for animation handling, Angular offers support for implementing imperative animation scripting through an incredibly simple but powerful API. In this chapter, we...