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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)

Building a draggable card list

The first component of our UI library will be a list of Bulma card elements. Each card will display a title, a description, and an anchor link element. We will also be able to drag a card and change the order of the card list using the Angular CDK. Building our component will consist of the following tasks:

  • Displaying card data
  • Adding drag-and-drop functionality

In the following section, we will first see how to display data on the card list.

Displaying card data

Our Angular application should pass a list of cards as an input property to the component for displaying them. Let's see how we can create a draggable card component, as follows:

  1. Execute the following Angular CLI command to create an Angular component:
    ng generate component card-list --project=ui-controls --export

    The preceding command will create a card-list component in the ui-controls project of our Angular CLI workspace. The --export option will also export...