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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

Deploying an Angular app

If you already have a web server that you want to use for your shiny new Angular 10 app, simply copy the contents of the output folder to a path in your server. If you want to deploy it in another directory other than the root one, use the --base-href option of the ng build command:

ng build --prod --base-href=/myapp/

The previous command will build the Angular app in production mode and change the href value of the base tag in the index.html file to /myapp/.

If you do not want to deploy it to a custom server, you can use the Angular CLI infrastructure to deploy it in one of the built-in hosting providers that it supports out of the box, including the following: