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Learning Angular - Fourth Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman
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Learning Angular - Fourth Edition

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By: Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman

Overview of this book

As Angular continues to reign as one of the top JavaScript frameworks, more developers are seeking out the best way to get started with this extraordinarily flexible and secure framework. Learning Angular, now in its fourth edition, will show you how you can use it to achieve cross-platform high performance with the latest web techniques, extensive integration with modern web standards, and integrated development environments (IDEs). The book is especially useful for those new to Angular and will help you to get to grips with the bare bones of the framework to start developing Angular apps. You'll learn how to develop apps by harnessing the power of the Angular command-line interface (CLI), write unit tests, style your apps by following the Material Design guidelines, and finally, deploy them to a hosting provider. Updated for Angular 15, this new edition covers lots of new features and tutorials that address the current frontend web development challenges. You’ll find a new dedicated chapter on observables and RxJS, more on error handling and debugging in Angular, and new real-life examples. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be able to create Angular applications with TypeScript from scratch, but also enhance your coding skills with best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Introducing the Angular CDK

The Angular CDK is the core of the Angular Material library. It is a collection of tools that implement similar interaction patterns; however, they are not tied to any presentation style, such as Material Design. The behavior of Angular Material components has been designed using the Angular CDK. The Angular CDK is so abstract that you can use it to create custom components. You should seriously consider it if you are a UI library author.

The capabilities of the Angular CDK are enormous and certainly cannot fit in a single chapter. For the sake of demonstration, we are going to describe two elements of the library:

  • Clipboard: Provides a copy–paste functionality with the system clipboard
  • Drag and Drop: Provides drag-and-drop features in elements

Angular CDK elements are imported from the @angular/cdk npm package. Each element must be imported from its module, which resides in a different namespace, similar to the Angular...