Switching to Angular - Third Edition

Key Features

• Get up to date with Google's vision for Angular
• Align with Angular version 5 and beyond from any direction with confidence
• Start using TypeScript to supercharge your Angular applications
• Understand the new framework from AngularJS perspective using your prior experience
• Use Angular to quickly build fast and scalable enterprise applications

Book Description

Align your work to stable APIs of Angular, version 5 and beyond, with Angular expert Minko Gechev. Angular is the modern Google framework for you to build high-performance, SEO-friendly, and robust web applications. Switching to Angular, Third Edition, shows you how you can align your current and future development with Google's long-term vision for Angular. Gechev shares his expert knowledge and community involvement to give you the clarity you need to confidently switch to Angular and stable APIs.

Minko Gechev helps you get to grips with Angular with an overview of the framework, and understand the long-term building blocks of Google's web framework. Gechev then gives you the lowdown on TypeScript with a crash course, so you can take advantage of Angular in its native, statically typed environment. You'll next move on to see how to use Angular dependency injection, plus how Angular router and forms, and Angular pipes, are designed to work for your projects today and in the future.

You'll be aligned with the vision and techniques of the one Angular, and be ready to start building quick and efficient Angular applications. You'll know how to take advantage of the latest Angular features and the core, stable APIs you can depend on. You'll be ready to confidently plan your future with the Angular framework.

What you will learn

• Align with Google's vision for Angular version 5 and beyond
• Confidently move forward with a long-term understanding of Angular
• Use stable APIs in Angular to build future-proof, blazingly fast enterprise applications
• Work with TypeScript to supercharge your Angular applications
• Understand the core concepts of Angular, aligned with the vision from Google
• Be ready with Angular from any direction―whether you're building new apps with the Angular and ASP.NET stack, or upgrading from AngularJS with ngUpgrade

About the Author

Minko Gechev is a Google Developer Expert for the Angular team and a presenter at over 40 worldwide conferences, including ng-conf, AngularConnect, AngularUP, and many others. Minko is co-author of the official Angular style guide, and has developed codelyzer – a tool for static analysis of Angular applications and best practices, which is part of the Angular CLI, and currently has over a million downloads each month.

Minko is a former member of the Angular Mobile Team where his role involved him with tools for facilitating the process of developing Progressive web applications with Angular easier. Other projects by the author include the AngularJS style guide, which is translated to 13 different languages, aspect.js, Angular Seed, and many others.

Minko Gechev is co-founder and CTO at Rhyme and strongly believes in open source software.

Table of Contents

1. Switching To The One Angular
2. Get Going with Angular
3. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application
4. TypeScript Crash Course
5. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives
6. Dependency Injection in Angular
7. Working with the Angular Router and Forms
8. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services
9. Tooling and Development Experience