In the previous chapter, we looked at the drivers for the design decisions behind Angular. We described the main reasons that led to the development of a brand new framework; Angular takes advantage of the newest web standards while keeping the past lessons in mind. Although we are familiar with the main drivers, we still haven't described the core concepts of the new framework. Angular took a different path from AngularJS and introduced a lot of changes in the fundamental building blocks used for the development of single-page applications.
The mission of this chapter is to describe the core of the framework and make a brief introduction to its main concepts. In the next couple of pages, we will also make an overview of how these concepts can be put together to help us build professional user interfaces for our web applications...