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Getting Started with Angular - Second edition - Second Edition

By : Minko Gechev
Book Image

Getting Started with Angular - Second edition - Second Edition

By: Minko Gechev

Overview of this book

Want to build quick and robust web applications with Angular? This book is the quickest way to get to grips with Angular and take advantage of all its new features.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with Angular Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Meta-programming with ES2016 decorators


JavaScript is a dynamic language that allows us to easily modify and/or alter the behavior to suit the programs we write. Decorators are a proposal to ES2016, which according to the design document https://github.com/wycats/javascript-decorators:

"...make it possible to annotate and modify classes and properties at design time."

Their syntaxes are quite similar to the annotations in Java, and they are even closer to the decorators in Python. ES2016 decorators are used commonly in Angular to define components, directives, and pipes, and to take advantage of the dependency injection mechanism of the framework. Most use cases of decorators involve altering the behavior to a predefined logic or adding some metadata to different constructs.

ES2016 decorators allow us to do a lot of fancy things by changing the behavior of our programs. Typical use cases could be to annotate the given methods or properties as deprecated or read-only. A set of predefined decorators...