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Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy

You're reading from   Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy A practical guide to building faster and more testable Angular apps with the new Ivy engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205215
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen
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Jacob Andresen Jacob Andresen
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Mateus Carniatto Mateus Carniatto
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Discovering New APIs and Language Syntax 2. Chapter 2: Boosting Developer Productivity Through Tooling, Configuration, and Convenience FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Introducing CSS Custom Properties and New Provider Scopes 4. Chapter 4: Exploring Angular Components Features 5. Chapter 5: Using CSS Custom Properties 6. Chapter 6: Using Angular Components 7. Chapter 7: Component Harnesses 8. Chapter 8: Additional Provider Scopes 9. Chapter 9: Debugging with the New Ivy Runtime APIs 10. Chapter 10: Using the Angular Compatibility Compiler 11. Chapter 11: Migrating Your Angular Application from View Engine to Ivy 12. Chapter 12: Embracing Ahead-of-Time Compilation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Controlling CSS Grid templates using custom CSS properties

Imagine that you want to emphasize the importance of the textual descriptions of videos, so you would like to increase the amount of space for text, and most likely decrease the amount of space used for the video. This could be implemented using a dynamic viewer using some TypeScript logic, which could perform the sizing calculations on the fly. Given that you would like to be able to view the content on your mobile phone as well, you would need to implement considerations for the grid layout on smaller screens. This additional requirement would be complex enough that custom theming would be required. However, as it turns out, we can combine media queries with inline custom CSS properties in a manner that is both compact and easy to understand.

If we introduce the video and text CSS classes for the course video tiles, then we can style them using custom CSS properties and CSS Grid techniques while referencing the container...

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