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Angular 2 Components

By : Thierry Templier Thierry
Book Image

Angular 2 Components

By: Thierry Templier Thierry

Overview of this book

This book is a concise guide to Angular 2 Components and is based on the stable version of Angular 2. You will start with learning about the Angular 2 Components architecture and how components differ from Angular directives in Angular 1. You will then move on to quickly set up an Angular 2 development environment and grasp the basics of TypeScript. With this strong foundation in place, you will start building components. The book will teach you, with an example, how to define component behavior, create component templates, and use the controller of your component. You will also learn how to make your components communicate with each other. Once you have built a component, you will learn how to extend it by integrating third-party components with it. By the end of the book, you will be confident with building and using components for your applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Angular 2 Components
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Data interpolation


In Chapter 3, The TypeScript Primer, we bound a simple string to the template. If you haven't done it, refer to Chapter 4, Building a Basic Component. Let's overview our app-component code:

[app.component.ts]
import { Component, ViewEncapsulation } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None,
  template: `
    <h1>
      {{title}}
    </h1>
  `,
  styles: [`
    h1 { color: darkblue }
  `]
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'app works!';
}

For now, we will focus on the template. Remove the encapsulation and styles properties from the component decorator to make it more clear and focused. While doing this, let's add a type and a constructor to our class as well:

[app.component.ts]
import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `
    <h1>
      {{ title }}
    </h1>
  `
})
export class AppComponent {
  title: string;

  constructor() {
    this...