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Getting Started with Angular - Second edition

You're reading from   Getting Started with Angular - Second edition Fast-track your web development skills to build high performance SPA with Angular 2 and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125278
Length 278 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Get Going with Angular FREE CHAPTER 2. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application 3. TypeScript Crash Course 4. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives 5. Dependency Injection in Angular 6. Working with the Angular Router and Forms 7. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services 8. Tooling and Development Experience

Creating custom Angular components


Now, let's build a simple to-do application in order to demonstrate the syntax to define components further.

Our to-do items will have the following format:

interface Todo { 
  completed: boolean; 
  label: string; 
} 

Let's start by importing everything we will need:

import {Component, NgModule, ViewEncapsulation} from '@angular/core'; 
//...

Now, let's declare the component and the metadata associated with it:

@Component({ 
  selector: 'todo-app', 
  templateUrl: './app.html', 
  styles: [ 
    `ul li { 
      list-style: none; 
    } 
    .completed { 
      text-decoration: line-through; 
    }` 
  ], 
  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.Emulated 
}) 

Here, we specify that the selector of the Todo component will be the todo-app element. Later, we add the template URL, which points to the app.html file. After that, we use the styles property; this is the first time...

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