Learning Angular: A practical guide to building web applications with modern Angular

Learn Angular by building a real-world e-shop web app, step-by-step from scaffolding to deployment, with expert guidance every step of the way

"Learning Angular provides the reader with an experience of building upon a simple application that is introduced at the beginning of the book." – Manfred Steyer, Google Developer Expert

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Key Features

• Explore the basics of Angular development, from components and templates to forms, routing, and services
• Get up to speed with the new paradigms modern Angular brings, including standalone APIs, new control flow syntax, Signals, and server-side rendering (SSR)
• Discover best practices for building, deploying, debugging, and testing Angular applications

Book Description

Dive into Angular Development — With the Most Trusted Guide in the Industry

Angular is one of the most powerful and widely adopted JavaScript frameworks, and Learning Angular is your go-to guide for building real-world, production-ready web applications. Written by a seasoned Angular developer and Google Developer Expert, this hands-on book takes you through every step of modern frontend development.

This edition reflects the latest “Angular Renaissance,” covering standalone components, Angular Signals, and the new control flow syntax, while showing you how to integrate with legacy code. A new chapter also explores boosting performance with server-side rendering (SSR) and hydration.

More than just a tutorial, Learning Angular builds your confidence chapter by chapter from scaffolding your first project to deploying it, with TypeScript best practices throughout.

Whether you’re new to Angular or sharpening your skills, this book provides a complete path to becoming a productive, future-ready Angular developer. By the end, you’ll be able to build Angular apps from scratch, with clarity, structure, and confidence.

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What you will learn

• Use the Angular CLI to scaffold, build, and deploy new Angular applications
• Create Angular applications using standalone APIs
• Build rich components with Angular template syntax
• Apply reactivity patterns with the RxJS library and Signals
• Craft beautiful user interfaces using Angular Material
• Create HTTP data services to access APIs and provide data to components
• Improve your debugging and error handling skills during runtime and development
• Optimize application performance with SSR and hydration techniques

Who this book is for

This book is for JavaScript developers and web developers dipping their feet for the first time in the world of frontend development with Angular, as well as those migrating to the Angular framework to build professional web applications. Current Angular developers looking to catch up with modern Angular will also find this book useful.

You'll need prior exposure to 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. Structuring User Interfaces with Components
4. Enriching Applications Using Pipes and Directives
5. Managing Complex Tasks with Services
6. Reactive Patterns in Angular
7. Tracking Application State with Signals
8. Communicating with Data Services over HTTP
9. Navigating through Applications with Routing
10. Collecting User Data with Forms
11. Handling Application Errors

(N.B. Please use the Read Sample option to see further chapters)