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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)

Creating user-specific portals

Our application will consist of two portals that different users will use. Visitors will be able to view a list of POIs and select them on a map. Administrators will be able to view statistics for each POI. We will learn more about how to use Nx Dev Tools in the following sections:

  • Building the visitor portal
  • Building the administrator portal

Each portal will be a separate Nx library that will be loaded according to the URL entered in the address bar of the browser. Organizing our code in libraries allows us to reuse it between different applications and build and test it individually. We will start building the visitor portal in the following section.

Building the visitor portal

The visitor portal will be a library inside the Nx workspace that will be loaded by default. Let's see how we can build that library with Nx Console:

  1. Run Nx Console from the VSCode sidebar and select the Generate option from the GENERATE...