Angular

Angular has long been the framework of choice for web development projects of various scales, offering much-needed stability and a rich tooling ecosystem for building production-ready web and mobile apps. This recipe-based guide to Angular will help you build up your Angular expertise with a wide range of recipes across key tasks in web development and show you how to build high-performance apps.

In this second edition, the recipes have been updated, added, and improved based on developer feedback and new challenges. The first few chapters will show you how to utilize core Angular concepts such as components, directives, and services to get you ready for building frontend web apps. You’ll then develop web components with Angular and go on to learn about advanced concepts such as dynamic components loading and state management with NgRx for achieving real-time performance.

Later chapters will focus on recipes for effectively testing your Angular apps to make them fail-safe, before progressing to techniques for optimizing your app’s performance. Finally, you’ll create Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Angular to provide an intuitive experience for users.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create full-fledged, professional-looking Angular apps and have the skills you need for frontend development.

What you will learn

• Gain a better understanding of how components, services, and directives work in Angular
• Get to grips with creating Progressive Web Apps using Angular from scratch
• Build rich animations and add them to your Angular apps
• Manage your app’s data reactivity using RxJS
• Implement state management for your Angular apps with NgRx
• Optimize the performance of your new and existing web apps
• Write fail-safe unit tests and end-to-end tests for your web apps using Jest and Cypress
• Get familiar with Angular CDK components for designing effective Angular components

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate-level Angular developers looking for actionable solutions to common problems in Angular enterprise development. Mobile developers using Angular will also find the recipes in this book useful. Working experience with JavaScript and TypeScript is necessary to understand the topics covered in this book more effectively.

If you’re looking to upskill and build sophisticated, minimalist web applications suited for enterprise use, Angular for Enterprise Applications is your guide to the next level of engineering mastery.

In its third edition, this Angular book distils hard-earned lessons into a lucid roadmap for success. Adopting a pragmatic approach founded on a robust technical base, you'll utilize both JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals. You'll also embrace agile engineering coding principles and learn to architect optimally sized enterprise solutions employing the freshest concepts in Angular.

You’ll gradually build upon this foundation through insightful recipes, sample apps, and crystal-clear explanations. You’ll master authentication and authorization and achieve optimal performance through reactive programming and lazy loading, build complex yet flexible UIs with Router-first principles, and then integrate with backend systems using REST and GraphQL APIs.

You’ll cover modern tools like RxAngular, Qwik, and Signals. You’ll construct master/detail views using data tables and NgRx for state management. You’ll explore DevOps using Docker and build CI/CD pipelines necessary for high-performance teams.

By the end of this book, you’ll be proficient in leveraging Angular in enterprise and design robust systems that scale effortlessly.

What you will learn

• Best practices for architecting and leading enterprise projects
• Minimalist, value-first approach to delivering web apps
• How standalone components, services, providers, modules, lazy loading, and directives work in Angular
• Manage your app's data reactivity using Signals or RxJS
• State management for your Angular apps with NgRx
• Angular ecosystem to build and deliver enterprise applications
• Automated testing and CI/CD to deliver high quality apps
• Authentication and authorization
• Building role-based access control with REST and GraphQL

Who this book is for

This book is for mid-to-senior developers looking to gain mastery by learning how to write, test, and deploy Angular in an enterprise environment. Working experience with JavaScript is a prerequisite, and a familiarity with TypeScript and RESTful APIs will help you understand the topics covered in this book more effectively

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.