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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

Integrating the missions module

According to the specifications of our application, a user should be able to do the following:

  • Assign a new mission to a hero
  • Mark a mission in progress as completed

So, we need to create a new feature module that contains functionality about missions. The folder structure of the module should be as follows:

Figure 13.7 – The missions folder structure

Figure 13.7 – The missions folder structure

It contains the following Angular artifacts:

  • mission: A component that is used to assign a new mission to a hero.
  • mission-list: A component that is used to display a list of missions. It also allows us to complete a mission.
  • missions.service.ts: A service that uses the HTTP client to manipulate the missions of a specific hero.

In the following section, we'll explore the first component, which allows us to assign a new mission.

Assigning a new mission

We can assign a new mission to a hero by clicking on the Assign button...