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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By : Gion Kunz
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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By: Gion Kunz

Overview of this book

Mastering Angular Components will help you learn how to invent, build, and manage shared and reusable components for your web projects. Angular components are an integral part of any Angular app and are responsible for performing specific tasks in controlling the user interface. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, the book begins by helping you build basic layout components, along with developing a fully functional task-management application using Angular. You’ll then learn how to create layout components and build clean data and state architecture for your application. The book will even help you understand component-based routing and create components that render Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll be able to visualize data using the third-party library Chartist and create a plugin architecture using Angular components. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the component-based architecture in Angular and have the skills you need to build modern and clean user interfaces.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we built two features to enhance the usability of our application. Users can now make use of tags, to easily annotate comments with navigable items that provide summaries to the subject. They can also use drag and drop, to reorder tasks within the task list component.

Usability is a key asset in today's applications, and, by providing highly encapsulated and reusable components to address usability concerns, we can make our lives a lot easier when building those applications. When dealing with usability, thinking in terms of components is a very good thing, not only for easing development, but for establishing consistency. Consistency itself plays a major role in making an application usable.

In the next chapter, we're going to create some nifty components to manage time within our task management system. This will also include some new user...