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Angular 2 Cookbook

By : Patrick Gillespie, Matthew Frisbie
Book Image

Angular 2 Cookbook

By: Patrick Gillespie, Matthew Frisbie

Overview of this book

Angular 2 introduces an entirely new way to build applications. It wholly embraces all the newest concepts that are built into the next generation of browsers, and it cuts away all the fat and bloat from Angular 1. This book plunges directly into the heart of all the most important Angular 2 concepts for you to conquer. In addition to covering all the Angular 2 fundamentals, such as components, forms, and services, it demonstrates how the framework embraces a range of new web technologies such as ES6 and TypeScript syntax, Promises, Observables, and Web Workers, among many others. This book covers all the most complicated Angular concepts and at the same time introduces the best practices with which to wield these powerful tools. It also covers in detail all the concepts you'll need to get you building applications faster. Oft-neglected topics such as testing and performance optimization are widely covered as well. A developer that reads through all the content in this book will have a broad and deep understanding of all the major topics in the Angular 2 universe.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Angular 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Composing application files for a minimum viable Angular 2 application


When approaching Angular 2 initially, it is useful to have an understanding of an application structure that is torn down to the bare metal. In the case of a minimum viable application, it will consist of a single component. Since this is a chapter on application organization, it isn't so much about what that component will look like, but rather how to take the TypeScript component definition and actually get it to render in a web page.

Note

The code, links, and a live example of this are available at http://ngcookbook.herokuapp.com/6323/.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes you have completed all the steps given in the Composing configuration files for a minimum viable Angular 2 application recipe. The npm module installation should succeed with no errors:

npm install

How to do it...

The simplest place to start is the core application component.

app.component.ts

Implement a component inside a new app/ directory as follows; there...