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Learning Angular - Third Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman
Book Image

Learning Angular - Third Edition

By: Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman

Overview of this book

Angular, loved by millions of web developers around the world, continues to be one of the top JavaScript frameworks thanks to its regular updates and new features that enable fast, cross-platform, and secure frontend web development. With Angular, you can achieve high performance using the latest web techniques and extensive integration with web tools and integrated development environments (IDEs). Updated to Angular 10, this third edition of the Learning Angular book covers new features and modern web development practices to address the current frontend web development landscape. If you are new to Angular, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you get you up and running in no time. 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. The book is especially useful for beginners to get to grips with the bare bones of the framework needed to start developing Angular apps. 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 (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Angular
4
Section 2: Components – the Basic Building Blocks of an Angular App
9
Section 3: User Experience and Testability
15
Section 4: Deployment and Practice

Adding heroes functionality

The primary goal of our application is to manage heroes. Thus, we need to create a feature module that groups similar functionality about heroes. The folder structure of the module should be as follows:

Figure 13.3 – The heroes folder structure

Figure 13.3 – The heroes folder structure

The heroes module contains the following Angular artifacts:

  • hero: a component that is used to create a new hero
  • hero-detail: a component that is used to display details of a specific hero
  • heroes.component.ts: a component that hosts the list of heroes and the sidebar for displaying details of a specific hero
  • heroes.service.ts: a service that uses the Angular HTTP client to provide CRUD operations for heroes data

    Important Note

    We have named the heroes host component the same as the module and placed it inside the same folder because it is the landing page of the heroes module. You can think of it as the main page of the feature. To create a component without a...