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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

Introducing the component lifecycle

Life cycle events are hooks that allow us to spy on specific stages in the lifecycle of a component and apply custom logic. They are entirely optional to use but might be of valuable help if you understand how to use them. Some hooks are considered best practice to use, while others help with debugging and understanding what happens in an Angular app. A hook comes with an interface that defines a method that we need to implement. The Angular framework makes sure the hook is called, provided we have implemented this method in the component. It is not obligatory to define the interface in the component, but it is considered a good practice. The Angular framework cares whether we have implemented the actual method or not. The available component lifecycle hooks are as follows:

  • OnInit
  • OnDestroy
  • OnChanges
  • DoCheck
  • AfterContentInit
  • AfterContentChecked
  • AfterViewInit
  • AfterViewChecked

All of the previous lifecycle...