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Switching to Angular

You're reading from   Switching to Angular Align with Google's long-term vision for Angular version 5 and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788620703
Length 280 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Switching to the One Angular FREE CHAPTER 2. Get Going with Angular 3. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application 4. TypeScript Crash Course 5. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives 6. Dependency Injection in Angular 7. Working with the Angular Router and Forms 8. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services 9. Tooling and Development Experience

Defining Angular directives

Now that we've built a simple Angular component, let's continue our journey by understanding the Angular directives.

Using Angular directives, we can apply different behavioral or structural changes over the DOM. In this example, we will build a simple tooltip directive.

In contrast to components, directives do not have templates. Another core difference between these two concepts is that the given HTML element may have only a single component, but multiple directives on it. In other words, directives augment the elements compared to components that are the actual elements in our views.

Angular's official style guide recommends using directives as attributes, prefixed with a namespace. Keeping this in mind, we will use the tooltip directive in the following way:

<div saTooltip="Hello world!"></div> 

In the preceding...

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