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Switching to Angular

You're reading from   Switching to Angular Align with Google's long-term vision for Angular version 5 and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788620703
Length 280 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Switching to the One Angular FREE CHAPTER 2. Get Going with Angular 3. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application 4. TypeScript Crash Course 5. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives 6. Dependency Injection in Angular 7. Working with the Angular Router and Forms 8. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services 9. Tooling and Development Experience

Changing directives

AngularJS introduced the concept of directives in the development of single-page applications. The purpose of directives is to encapsulate the DOM-related logic and allow us to build user interfaces by composing them. This way, we are able to extend the syntax and the semantics of HTML. Initially, like most innovative concepts, directives were viewed controversially because they predispose us to write invalid HTML when using custom elements or attributes without the data- prefix. However, over time, this concept has gradually been accepted and has proved that it is here to stay.

Another drawback of the implementation of directives in AngularJS is the different ways that we can use them. This requires an understanding of the attribute values, which can be literals, expressions, callbacks, or microsyntax. This makes tooling essentially impossible.

Angular keeps...

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