Angular 6 By Example, 3rd Edition

Angular By Example – Third Edition: Discover everything you need to know to build your own Angular 6 applications the hands-on way

Harness the power of Angular Components, Router, Forms, Directives and much more to build professional-grade web apps with TypeScript

Key Features

• Get to grips with #1 JavaScript framework and explore modern concepts for developing single page applications
• Develop full-featured web applications using Angular 6 and TypeScript from scratch
• Learn professional web programming techniques to supercharge your Angular projects

Book Description

Angular helps you build faster, efficient, and flexible cross-platform applications. Creating complex and rich web applications, with a lighter resource footprint, has never been easier or faster. Angular is now at release 6, with significant changes compared to previous versions.

In this third edition of Angular by Example, you’ll build three apps with varying degrees of complexity. The book starts with a simple “Guess the Number”game, which serves as a platform to launch you into the world of Angular. Next, you will learn to develop a popular “7-Minute Workout” app, covering the building blocks of Angular. The final app, “Personal Trainer” morphs the existing “7-Minute Workout” into a full-fledged personal workout builder and runner, covering advanced directive building, which is the most fundamental and powerful feature of Angular.In addition to this, you will learn about testability and the framework constructs Angular provides to effectively test your app. The book concludes by providing you with practical advice and useful tips that will come in handy as you build more apps with Angular.

What you will learn

• Get introduced to the Angular framework and create a simple guess the number app that explores core features of the framework
• Dig deeper into the angular framework by building the 7-minute workout app throughout the book
• Explore primary building blocks of Angular – components
• Go deep into the inner workings of Angular 6 directives and components
• Learn about cross-component communication using Angular events
• Get started with the unit and E2E testing
• Understand how to encounter scenarios such as authentication and authorization, localization, performance, and migrating apps from Angular 1 to Angular 6

Who This Book Is For

Angular by Example is an essential guide for beginners who want to get started with Angular. You’ll start building applications immediately with the featured examples and uncover a simpler approach to JavaScript web development. Prior experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is necessary.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Building Our First App – 7 Minute Workout
Chapter 3. More Angular – SPA and Routing
Chapter 4. Personal Trainer
Chapter 5. Supporting Server Data Persistence
Chapter 6. Angular Directives in Depth
Chapter 7. Testing Personal Trainer
Chapter 8. Some Practical Scenarios