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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

Initial load of a SPA


In this section, we will explore what a server-side rendering is, why we need it in our applications, and how we can use it with Angular.

For our purpose, we'll explain the typical flow of events when a user opens a SPA implemented in Angular. First, we'll trace the events with the server-side rendering disabled, and after that, we'll see how we can benefit from this feature by enabling it. Our example will be illustrated in the context of HTTP 1.1:

Figure 2

Figure 2 shows the first request by the browser and the corresponding server's response when loading a typical SPA. The result that the client will see initially is the content of the HTML page without any rendered components.

Let's suppose that we deploy the to-do application we built in Chapter 4, Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives, to a web server that has the example.com domain associated with it.

Once the user navigates to https://example.com/, the browser will open a new HTTP GET request...