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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)

Chapter 10: Customizing Angular CLI Commands Using Schematics

The Angular CLI is a very powerful tool and the de facto solution for working with Angular applications. It eliminates most of the boilerplate code and configuration from the developer and allows them to focus on the fun stuff, which is building awesome Angular applications. Apart from enhancing the Angular development experience, it can be easily customized to the needs of each developer.

The Angular CLI contains a set of useful commands for building, bundling, and testing Angular applications. It also provides a collection of special commands, called schematics, that are used to generate various Angular artifacts such as components, modules, and services. Schematics expose a public API that developers can use to create their own Angular CLI commands or extend the existing ones.

In this chapter, we will cover the following details about schematics:

  • Installing the schematics CLI
  • Creating a Tailwind component...