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Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular

By : Bram Borggreve
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Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular

By: Bram Borggreve

Overview of this book

With the help of Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular, equip yourself with the skills required to create modern, progressive web applications that load quickly and efficiently. This fast-paced book is a great way to learn how to build an effective UX by using the new features of Angular 7 beta, without wasting efforts in searching for referrals. To start off, you'll install Angular CLI and set up a working environment, followed by learning to distinguish between the container and presentational components. You'll explore advanced concepts such as making requests to a REST API from an Angular application, creating a web server using Node.js and Express, and adding dynamic metadata. You'll also understand how to implement and configure a service worker using Angular PWA and deploy the server-side rendered app to the cloud. By the end of this book, you'll have developed skills to serve your users views that load instantly, while reaping all the SEO benefits of improved page indexing.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we used ng add to add a service worker to the application. We then configured the service worker and tested its behavior using Chrome Developer Tools. Lastly, we looked at how to debug the service worker.

In this book, we have built an app from scratch using Angular CLI. We used the Bootstrap framework to create a reusable user interface and added a module to list data that comes from an API.

Once this basic application was working, we added support for server-side rendering. We installed and configured Angular Universal and built a server using the NestJS framework. After that, we added support for dynamic metadata and a Docker configuration so that we could deploy it to the cloud. We completed the app by adding and configuring a service worker so that it could work as a Progressive Web App.