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Switching to Angular - Third Edition

By : Minko Gechev
Book Image

Switching to Angular - Third Edition

By: Minko Gechev

Overview of this book

Align your work to stable APIs of Angular, version 5 and beyond, with Angular expert Minko Gechev. Angular is the modern Google framework for you to build high-performance, SEO-friendly, and robust web applications. Switching to Angular, Third Edition, shows you how you can align your current and future development with Google's long-term vision for Angular. Gechev shares his expert knowledge and community involvement to give you the clarity you need to confidently switch to Angular and stable APIs. Minko Gechev helps you get to grips with Angular with an overview of the framework, and understand the long-term building blocks of Google's web framework. Gechev then gives you the lowdown on TypeScript with a crash course, so you can take advantage of Angular in its native, statically typed environment. You'll next move on to see how to use Angular dependency injection, plus how Angular router and forms, and Angular pipes, are designed to work for your projects today and in the future. You'll be aligned with the vision and techniques of the one Angular, and be ready to start building quick and efficient Angular applications. You'll know how to take advantage of the latest Angular features and the core, stable APIs you can depend on. You'll be ready to confidently plan your future with the Angular framework.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Defining parameterized views

As the next step, once the user clicks on the name of any of the developers on the home page of the application, they should be redirected to a view with a detailed profile of the selected developer. The end result will look as follows:

Figure 2

In order to do this, we will need to pass an identifier of the developer to the component that shows the developer's detailed profile. Open app.ts, and add the following import:

import {DeveloperDetails} from './developer_details'; 

We haven't developed the DeveloperDetails component yet, so, if you run the application, you will get an error. We will define the component in the next paragraph, but before this, let's alter the routes definition of app.ts:

const routingModule = RouterModule.forRoot([
  ...
  {
    component: DeveloperDetails,
    path: 'dev-details/:id',
 ...