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Mastering Angular Components

You're reading from   Mastering Angular Components Build component-based user interfaces with Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293532
Length 402 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gion Kunz Gion Kunz
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Component-Based User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Ready, Set, Go! 3. Dealing with Data and State 4. Thinking in Projects 5. Component-Based Routing 6. Keeping up with Activities 7. Components for User Experience 8. Time Will Tell 9. Spaceship Dashboard 10. Putting Things to the Test 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding tasks

Our task list looks nice already, but it would be quite useless if the user is unable to add new tasks to the list. Let's create a component for entering new tasks together. Let's create a new component with the responsibilities of handling all the UI logic necessary for entering a new task to our list.

Let's use the Angular CLI tool to create a new component stub:

ng generate component --spec false -ve none tasks/enter-task

Open up the template of the newly created component located at src/app/tasks/enter-task/enter-task.component.html and apply the following changes:

<input type="text"
       placeholder="Enter new task title..." 
       #titleInput> 
<button (click)="enterTask(titleInput)"> 
  Add Task 
</button>

This template consists of an input field as well as a button to enter a new task. If you...

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