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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)

Publishing an Angular library to npm

We have already seen how to build an Angular library and consume it in an Angular application when both exist in the same repository or organization. However, there are cases where you may want to make your library available to Angular projects outside your infrastructure via a public package registry such as npm. A usual case is when you want to make your library open source so that other members in the development community can benefit from this. Let's see how to publish our ui-controls library to npm, as follows:

  1. If you do not have an npm account, navigate to https://www.npmjs.com/signup to create one. Otherwise, continue to Step 3.
  2. Enter the following details and click the Create an Account button:
    Figure 9.5 – Creating an npm account

    Figure 9.5 – Creating an npm account

    After your account has been created, you will be redirected to your profile page in npm.

  3. Open the package.json file that exists in the projects\ui-controls folder of the Angular CLI workspace...