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