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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)

Reporting new issues

One of the main features of our issue tracking system is the ability to report new issues. We will use Angular reactive forms to create a form for adding new issues. The feature can be further subdivided into the following tasks:

  • Setting up reactive forms in an Angular application
  • Creating the report issue form
  • Displaying a new issue in the list
  • Validating the details of an issue

Let's begin by introducing reactive forms in our Angular application.

Setting up reactive forms in an Angular application

Reactive forms are defined in the @angular/forms npm package of the Angular framework:

  1. Open the app.module.ts file and import ReactiveFormsModule:
    import { ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
  2. Add ReactiveFormsModule into the imports array of the @NgModule decorator:
    @NgModule({
      declarations: [
        AppComponent,
        IssueListComponent
      ],...