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Switching to Angular - Third Edition

By : Minko Gechev
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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)

Angular quick starters

If you prefer a less encapsulated build, there are a lot of starter projects developed by the community that can provide a good starting point for your next Angular project.

Angular seed

If you enjoy static typing, you can give the Angular Seed project a try. It is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/mgechev/angular-seed.

Angular Seed provides the following key features:

  • Easy for extend, modular, and statically typed build systems
  • AOT compilation support
  • Support for multiple Angular applications with a shared code base in a single instance of the seed
  • Production and development builds
  • Sample unit tests with Jasmine and Karma
  • End-to-end tests with Protractor
  • A development server with LiveReload
  • Uses...