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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)

Essential background theory and context

Electron is a cross-platform framework that is used to build desktop applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Many popular applications are built with Electron, such as Visual Studio Code, Skype, and Slack. The Electron framework is built on top of Node.js and Chromium. Web developers can leverage their existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to create desktop applications without learning a new language such as C++ or C#.

Tip

Electron applications have many similarities with PWA applications. Consider building an Electron application for scenarios such as advanced filesystem manipulation or when you need a more native look and feel for your application. Another use case is when you are building a complementary tool for your primary desktop product and you want to ship them together.

An Electron application consists of two processes:

  • Main: This interacts with the native local resources using the Node.js API.
  • Renderer...