Getting Started with Angular - Second Edition

Fast-track your web development skills to build high performance SPA with Angular 2 and beyond About This Book • Up to date with the latest API changes introduced by Angular 2 and 4 • Get familiar with the improvements to directives change detection dependency injection router and more • Understand Angulars new component-based architecture • Start using TypeScript to supercharge your Angular applications Who This Book Is For Do you want to jump in at the deep end of Angular? Or perhaps youre interested assessing the changes to AngularJS before moving over? If so then Getting Started with Angular is the book for you. To get the most out of the book youll need to be familiar with AngularJS 1.x and have a good understanding of JavaScript. What You Will Learn • Understand the changes made from AngularJS with side-by-side code samples to help demystify the Angular learning curve • Start working with Angulars new method of implementing directives • Use TypeScript to write modern powerful Angular applications • Dig in to the change detection method and other architectural changes to make sure you know whats going on under the hood of Angular • Get to work with the new router in Angular • Use the new features of Angular including pipes and the updated features such as forms services and dependency injection • Learn about the server-side rendering in Angular to keep your new applications SEO-friendly • Enhance your applications using Ahead-of-Time compilation and Web Workers In Detail Im delighted to see this new update and hope it helps you build amazing things with Angular. - Misko Hevery Creator of AngularJS and Angular Angular is the modern framework you need to build performant and robust web applications. This book is the quickest way to upgrade your AngularJS knowledge to the brave new world of Angular and get grips with the framework. It starts with an overview putting the changes of the framework in context with version 1. After that you will be taken on a TypeScript crash-course so you can take advantage of Angular in its native statically-typed environment. Youll explore the new change detection mechanism in detail how directives and components have changed how you create applications with Angular and much more. Next youll understand how to efficienly develop forms use the router implement communication with HTTP services and transform data with custom pipes. Finally we will take a look at the Angulars Ahead-of-Time compiler angular-cli and other such tools that help us build professional applications. By the end of the book youll be ready to start building quick and efficient Angular applications compatible with v2 and v4 that take advantage of all the new features on offer. This book is up to date for the 2.4 release and is compatible with the 4.0 release as well. Style and approach Starting with a comparison between Angular versions this book is filled with side-by-side code examples to help highlight the changes. Each chapter then looks at major changes to the framework and is filled with small examples and sample code to get you started.