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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Essential background theory and context

The Angular framework provides two types of forms that we can use:

Template-driven: They are easy and straightforward to set up in an Angular application. Template-driven forms do not scale well and are difficult to test because they are defined in the template of the component.
Reactive: They are based on a reactive programming approach. Reactive forms operate in the TypeScript class of the component, and they are easier to test and scale better than template-driven forms.

In this chapter, we will get hands-on with the reactive forms approach, which is the most popular in the Angular community.

Angular components can get data either from external sources such as HTTP or from other Angular components. In the latter case, they interact with components that have data using a public API:

@Input(): This is used to pass data into a component.
@Output(): This is used to get notified about changes or get data back...