Summary

That’s it! Your journey to the world of Angular has just begun. Let’s recap the features that you have learned so far. We learned what Angular is, looked over the brief history of the platform, and examined the benefits of using it for web development.

We saw how to set up our development workspace and find the tools we need to bring TypeScript into the game. We introduced the Angular CLI tool, the Swiss Army knife for Angular, that automates specific development tasks. We used some of the most common commands to scaffold our first Angular application. We also examined the structure of our application and learned how to interact with it.

Our first application gave us a basic understanding of how Angular works internally to render our application on a web page. We embarked on our journey, starting with the main HTML file of an Angular application. We saw how Angular parses that file and starts searching the component tree to load the main component. We learned the main module of an Angular application and looked at how Angular bootstraps it at application startup.

Finally, we met the VS Code editor and learned how it could empower you as a software developer. We examined some of the essential available plugins and extensions for Angular that save quite a few keystrokes. Your focus and energy should be spent on solving the problem and structuring your solution, not making your fingers tired. We encourage you to learn more about your editor and its possibilities because this will make you faster and more efficient.

In the next chapter, you will learn some of the basics of the TypeScript language. The chapter will cover what problems can be solved by introducing types and the language itself. TypeScript, as a superset of JavaScript, contains a lot of powerful concepts and marries well with the Angular framework, as you are about to discover.