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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)

Building our application with Nx Console

The Angular CLI is a command-line tool with a variety of commands. Each command can accept a wide range of options and parameters according to the task that we want to accomplish. The process of remembering these commands and their options off by heart is daunting and time-consuming. In such cases, the ecosystem of Angular tooling can come in handy. VSCode Marketplace contains many useful extensions that we can install to help us during Angular development. One of these extensions is the Nx Console, which provides a user interface over the Angular CLI. To install the Nx Console in your environment, follow these steps:

  1. Open VSCode and click on the Extensions menu in the sidebar:
    Figure 1.15 – VSCode Extensions

    Figure 1.15 – VSCode Extensions

  2. In the EXTENSIONS pane that appears, type Nx Console.
  3. Click the Install button on the first item to install the Nx Console extension.

The Nx Console extension is now installed globally in our environment, which...