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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

Spaceship Dashboard

When I was a child, I loved to play spaceship pilot. I piled up old carton boxes and decorated the interiors to look like a spaceship cockpit. With a marker, I drew a spaceship dashboard on the inside of the boxes, and I remember playing in there for hours.

The thing that's special about the design of cockpits and spaceship dashboard is that they need to provide an overview and control over the whole spaceship, in very limited space. I think the same applies to application dashboards. A dashboard should provide the user with an overview and a sense of the overall status of what's going on.

In this chapter, we will create such a dashboard for our task management application. We will make use of the open source charting library Chartist to create good looking, responsive charts and provide an overview of open tasks and project statuses:

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