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Learning Angular - Fourth Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman
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Book Image

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

Setting up a backend API

A web CRUD application usually connects to a server and uses an HTTP backend API to perform operations on data. It fetches existing data, updates it, creates new data, or deletes it. In a real-world scenario, you will most likely interact with a real backend API service through HTTP. There are cases, though, where we do not have access to a real backend API:

  • We may work remotely, and the server is only accessible through a VPN connection to which we do not have access.
  • We want to set up a quick prototype for demo purposes.
  • Available HTTP endpoints are not yet ready for consumption from the backend development team, a common problem when working inside a large team of different types of developers.

To overcome all the previous obstacles during development, we can use a fake server such as the Fake Store API. The Fake Store API is a backend REST API available online that you can use when you need fake data for an e-commerce or e-shop web application. It...