Learning Angular: A no-nonsense beginner's guide to building web applications with Angular 10 and TypeScript

Uncover Angular's potential for creating enterprise web applications-from setting up the environment to deployment-with the help of expert guidance, step-by-step explanations, and hands-on exercises

Key Features

• Learn the fundamentals of Angular to build web applications using TypeScript
• Explore the basics of Angular development, from components and templates to forms and services
• Discover best practices for building, packaging, and testing Angular applications

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Use the Angular CLI to scaffold, build, and deploy a new Angular application
• Build components, the basic building blocks of an Angular application
• Discover techniques to make Angular components interact with each other
• Understand the different types of templates supported by Angular
• Create HTTP data services to access APIs and provide data to components
• Enhance your application's UX with Angular Material
• Apply best practices and coding conventions to your large-scale web development projects

Who this book is for

The Angular TypeScript book is for JavaScript and full-stack developers who want to enter the world of frontend development with Angular or migrate to the Angular framework to build professional web applications. Familiarity with web and programming concepts will assist with understanding the content covered in the book.

Table of Contents

1. Building Your First Angular App
2. Introduction to TypeScript
3. Component Interaction and Inter-Communication
4. Enhance Components with Pipes and Directives
5. Structure an Angular App
6. Enrich Components with Asynchronous Data Services
7. Navigate through Components with Routing
8. Orchestrating Validation Experiences in Forms
9. Introduction to Angular Material
10. Give Motion to Components with Animations
11. Unit Test an Angular App
12. Bringing an Angular App to Production
13. Develop a Real-World Angular App

Aristeidis Bampakos is an experienced frontend web developer and a contributor to the Angular documentation. For the last 8 years of work experience, he has mainly focused on developing applications with AngularJS and Angular frameworks, Typescript, and Angular Material. He has also been involved in the development of hybrid mobile applications using the Ionic framework. Currently, at Plexscape, he is working on integrating GIS technologies over an Angular and Electron.

Pablo Deeleman is a former UI/UX designer who fell in love with JavaScript and CSS back in 1998, during the old days of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3. The discovery of Node.js back in 2011 became a turning point in his career. From that moment on he started focusing on JavaScript application development, with a special focus on creating single-page applications and interaction development. With sound expertise in front-end libraries and frameworks, such as Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Polymer, React, Svelte, AngularJs, and Angular, Pablo has developed his career as a JavaScript practitioner across a broad range of successful start-ups as well as large enterprise corporations such as Gameloft, Red Hat or Dynatrace, just to name a few. He currently works as a Senior Software Engineer and Angular specialist for Dynatrace, a Gartner quadrant leader in the Application Performance Monitoring field. Pablo Deeleman has contributed to the dev community with several books on Angular since 2016, all published by Packt Publishing.