Getting Started With Angular

Table of Contents Chapter 1: What is Angular? What is Angular? Some examples of the type of projects built with Angular Angular's history Why use Angular? Features of Angular The Client Contacts Manager Application Summary Chapter 2: Angular Architecture Overview of Angular Installing the Angular CLI Installing Visual Studio Code The architecture of an Angular app The architecture of our Client Contacts application Summary Chapter 3: Getting Started with the Angular CLI How a CLI helps Angular developers Installing the Angular CLI Creating the Client Contacts Manager application Running your application in the browser Commands of the Angular CLI What are Schematics? Summary Chapter 4: Components, Templates, and Forms Components What are components? Why do we have components now? The structure of a component The Component class The component life cycle hooks Passing data into and out of components Component templates Categories of components An introduction to forms Creating a Reactive form When to use template forms When to use Reactive forms Summary Chapter 5: NgModules What are modules in Angular? The parts of the NgModule file How to create modules using the CLI Creating modules for our Client Contact Manager application Adding our Client components to the ClientModule Adding Angular Material Summary Chapter 6: Routing and Navigation What are routes? Creating our navigation component Route parameters Route Guards Implementing a Route Guard Summary Chapter 7: Dependency Injection, Services, and HttpClient What is Dependency Injection? How does Angular handle Dependency Injection Providers in Angular Services in Angular A look at the services Angular provides The HttpClient service Features of the HttpClient API Advanced features of HttpClient service Summary Chapter 8: Observables and RxJs Observables What is RxJs? Operators Examples of Operators The Operator Decision Tree Subjects How Angular uses RxJs Summary Chapter 9: State Management and NgRx Defining state management The Redux library Exploring NgRx Example of a Reducer Example of an Action Example of the Store Example of Selectors Effects Installing NgRx Summary Further Reading Chapter 10: Testing Testing and Test Driven Development Jasmine in action Setup and tear down of tests The Karma test runner Taking a Test Driven Development approach Karma settings in Angular Running tests using the Angular CLI Writing tests in Angular The TestBed class Examples of tests Summary Chapter 11: Packaging Our Application Building a release version with the CLI The angular.json file Ahead-of-Time compilation Other various production optimisations Making use of lazy loading Application size budget Measuring performance Summary