You're reading from Angular Projects Build modern web apps by exploring Angular 12 with 10 different projects and cutting-edge technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205260

Length 344 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Aristeidis Bampakos

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Web Application in Angular

2. Chapter 2: Building an SPA Application with Scully and Angular Router FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Building an Issue Tracking System using Reactive Forms

4. Chapter 4: Building a PWA Weather Application Using Angular Service Worker

5. Chapter 5: Building a WYSIWYG Editor for the Desktop using Electron

6. Chapter 6: Building a Mobile Photo Geotagging Application Using Capacitor and 3D Maps

7. Chapter 7: Building an SSR Application for a GitHub Portfolio Using Angular

8. Chapter 8: Building an Enterprise Portal Using Nx Monorepo Tools and NgRx

9. Chapter 9: Building a Component UI Library Using Angular CLI and Angular CDK

10. Chapter 10: Customizing Angular CLI Commands Using Schematics

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Adding a WYSIWYG editor library for Angular

We will kick off our project by creating a WYSIWYG editor as a standalone Angular application first. Use the Angular CLI to create a new Angular application from scratch:

ng new my-editor --defaults

We pass the following options to the ng new command:

my-editor: Defines the name of the application
--defaults: Defines CSS as the preferred stylesheet format of the application and disables routing because our application will consist of a single component that will host the editor

A WYSIWYG editor is a rich text editor, such as Microsoft Word. We could create one from scratch using the Angular framework, but it would be a time-consuming process, and we would only re-invent the wheel. The Angular ecosystem contains a wide variety of libraries to use for this purpose. One of them is the ngx-wig library, which has no external dependencies, just Angular! Let's add the library to our application and learn how to use...