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

A typical Angular application follows the Single-Page Application (SPA) approach, where each page is created in the DOM of the browser while the user interacts with the application. A web server hosts the application and is responsible for serving only the main page, usually called index.html, at application startup.

Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is a technique that follows an entirely different approach for application rendering than SPA. It uses the server to prerender pages while they are requested at runtime from the user. Rendering content on the server dramatically enhances the performance of a web application and improves its Search Engine Optimization (SEO) capabilities. To perform SSR in an Angular application, we use a library called Angular Universal.

In this chapter, we will learn how to benefit from Angular Universal by building a portfolio application using the GitHub API. We will cover the...