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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

Summary

It takes much more than a single chapter to cover in detail all the great things that we can do with the Angular HTTP library. The good news is that we have covered pretty much all the tools and classes we need. We learned what reactive functional programming is and how it can be used in Angular. We saw how to apply reactive techniques such as observables to communicate with a backend HTTP API. We also investigated various approaches in HTTP as far as authentication and error handling are concerned.

The rest is just left to your imagination, so feel free to go the extra mile and put all of this knowledge into practice in your Angular applications. The possibilities are endless, and you have assorted strategies to choose from, ranging from promises to observables. You can leverage the incredible functionalities of the reactive operators and the powerful HttpClient to communicate with backend servers. If you are preparing a prototype of your favorite application or the backend...