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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

Interacting with the template

In Chapter 1, Building Your First Angular App, we saw how Angular displays HTML content from components, but we didn't even scratch the surface of template development for Angular. As we will see later in this book, template implementation is tightly coupled with the principles of Shadow DOM design, and it brings out a lot of syntactic sugar to ease the task of binding properties and events in our views in a declarative fashion. Let's first take a look at how an Angular component can interact with its template either by displaying and getting data from it or by applying styles to it.

Displaying data from the component

We have already stumbled upon interpolation to display a property value from the class component to the template:

<span>{{ title }}</span>

Angular converts the title component property into text and displays it on the screen. An alternate way to perform interpolation is to bind title to the innerText...