Learning Angular: A no-nonsense guide to building web applications with Angular, 4th Edition

Build your first production-grade web applications from scratch with Angular with the help of expert guidance and step-by-step explanations.

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.

Key Features

• Learn the fundamentals of Angular 15 to build web applications
• Explore the basics of Angular development, from components and templates to forms, routing, and services
• Discover best practices for building, deploying, debugging, and testing Angular applications

Book Description

As Angular continues to reign as one of the top JavaScript frameworks, more developers are seeking out the best way to get started with this extraordinarily flexible and secure framework. Learning Angular, now in its fourth edition, will show you how you can use it to achieve cross-platform high performance with the latest web techniques, extensive integration with modern web standards, and integrated development environments (IDEs).

The book is especially useful for those new to Angular and will help you to get to grips with the bare bones of the framework to start developing Angular apps. 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.

Updated for Angular 15, this new edition covers lots of new features and tutorials that address the current frontend web development challenges. You'll find a new dedicated chapter on observables and RxJS, more on error handling and debugging in Angular, and new real-life examples.

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 new Angular Material components such as Google Maps, YouTube, and multi-select dropdowns
• Understand the different types of templates supported by Angular
• Create HTTP data services to access APIs and provide data to components
• Learn how to build Angular apps without modules in Angular 15.x with standalone APIs
• Improve your debugging and error handling skills during runtime and development

Who this book is for

This book is for JavaScript and full-stack developers dipping their feet first time in the world of frontend development with Angular, as well as those migrating to the Angular framework to build professional web applications. You'll need prior exposure JavaScript and a solid foundation in the basics of web programming before you get started with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Building Your First Angular Application
2. Introduction to TypeScript
3. Organizing Application into Modules
4. Enabling User Experience with Components
5. Enrich Applications Using Pipes and Directives
6. Managing Complex Tasks with Services
7. Being Reactive Using Observables and RxJS
8. Communicating with Data Services over HTTP
9. Navigate through Application with Routing
10. Collecting User Data with Forms
11. Introduction to Angular Material
12. Unit Test an Angular Application
13. Bringing Application to Production
14. Handling Errors and Application Debugging

Aristeidis Bampakos has over 20 years of experience in the software development industry. He is a Greek national who currently works in Athens as a Web Development Team Leader at Plex-Earth, specializing in the development of web applications using Angular.

He studied Computer Technology at the University of Portsmouth and in 2002 he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Engineering with Second Class Honours (Upper Division). In 2004, he completed his MSc in Telecommunications Technology at Aston University. His career started as a C# .NET developer, but he saw the potential of web development and moved toward it in early 2011. He began working with AngularJS, and Angular later on, and in 2020 he was officially recognized as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular.

Aristeidis is passionate about helping the developer community learn and grow. In his book 'Learning Angular,' Aristeidis brings his knowledge of Angular gathered over the years together so that his readers can benefit from it effectively. Alongside this, he authored ‘Angular Projects’, which delves deeper into Angular web development applications.

As well as this, his love for teaching has led him to become an Angular Senior Tech Instructor at Code.Hub where he nurtures aspiring Angular developers and professionals.

In his spare time, he enjoys being an occasional speaker in meetups, conferences, and podcasts where he talks about Angular. He is currently leading the effort of making Angular accessible to the Greek development community by maintaining the open-source Greek translation of the official Angular documentation.

With sound expertise in front-end libraries and frameworks such as Backbone.js, Knockout.js, VueJS, React, Svelte, AngularJs, and Angular, Pablo Deeleman has developed his career since 1998 as a JavaScript engineer across a broad range of successful companies such as Gameloft, Red Hat or Dynatrace, just to name a few. He currently works as Staff Software Engineer at Twilio, the global leader in customer engagement communications. Pablo Deeleman has contributed to the dev community with several books on Angular since 2016, all published by Packt Publishing.