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Angular Projects - Second Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
Book Image

Angular Projects - Second Edition

By: Aristeidis Bampakos

Overview of this book

Packed with practical advice and detailed recipes, this updated second edition of Angular Projects will teach you everything you need to know to build efficient and optimized web applications using Angular. Among the things you’ll learn in this book are the essential features of the framework, which you’ll master by creating ten different real-world web applications. Each application will demonstrate how to integrate Angular with a different library and tool. As you advance, you’ll familiarize yourself with implementing popular technologies, such as Angular Router, Scully, Electron, Angular service worker, Nx monorepo tools, NgRx, and more while building an issue tracking system. You’ll also work on a PWA weather application, a mobile photo geotagging application, a component UI library, and many other exciting projects. In the later chapters, you’ll get to grips with customizing Angular CLI commands using schematics. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to be able to build Angular apps using a variety of different technologies according to your or your client’s needs.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating our first Angular application

To create a fresh new Angular application, we must execute the ng new command of the Angular CLI, passing the name of the application as an option:

ng new my-angular

The new command is used to create a new Angular application or a new Angular workspace. An Angular workspace is an Angular CLI project that contains one or more Angular applications, where some of them can be Angular libraries. So, when we execute the ng new command, we create an Angular workspace with an Angular application by default.

In the previous command, the name of our Angular application is my-angular. Upon executing the command, the Angular CLI will ask some questions to collect as much information as possible regarding the nature of the application that we want to create. Let's take a look:

  1. Initially, it will ask whether we want to enable routing in our Angular application:

    Figure 1.9 – Angular routing

    Figure 1.9 – Angular routing

    Routing in Angular is all about navigating...