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Angular Projects - Second Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
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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 a mobile application with Ionic

The first step toward building our application is creating a new mobile application using the Ionic toolkit. We will start building our application with the following tasks:

  • Scaffolding the application
  • Building the main menu

Ionic has a pretty straightforward process for creating a new mobile application from scratch, which can be done from the Ionic website without entering a single line of code.

Scaffolding the application

To create a new Ionic application, we need to head over to https://www.ionicframework.com and complete the following steps:

  1. Click on the Get Started button that is displayed on the header of the landing page:
    Figure 6.1 – Start an Ionic application

    Figure 6.1 – Start an Ionic application

    You will be redirected to the Create your Ionic App page to fill in all the necessary details to create your Ionic application.

  2. Enter the name of your application in the App name field:
    Figure 6.2 – Enter the application name

    Figure 6.2 – Enter the application name

  3. ...