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Switching to Angular
Switching to Angular

Switching to Angular: Align with Google's long-term vision for Angular version 5 and beyond , Third Edition

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Switching to Angular

Get Going with Angular

On September 18, 2014, Google pushed the first public commit to the repository that now contains Angular. A few weeks later, at ng-europe, Igor, and Tobias, from the core team, gave a short overview of what were the expected features of the new framework. The vision at that time was far from final; however, one thing was certain: Angular would be an entirely different framework compared to AngularJS.

This announcement brought a lot of questions and controversies. The reasons behind the drastic changes were quite clear: AngularJS was no longer able to take full advantage of the evolved web and the requirements of large-scale JavaScript applications needed to be completely satisfied. A new framework would let Angular developers capitalize on developments in web technology in simpler, more performant, and productive ways. Yet, people were concerned. One of...

The evolution of the web – time for a new framework

In the past couple of years, the web has evolved in big steps. During the implementation of ECMAScript 5, the ECMAScript 6 standard started its development (now known as ECMAScript 2015 or ES2015). ES2015 introduced many changes in JavaScript, such as adding built-in language support for modules, block scope variable definition, and a lot of syntactical sugar, such as classes and destructuring.

Meanwhile, web components were invented. Web components allow us to define custom HTML elements and attach behavior to them. Since it is hard to extend the existing set of HTML elements with new ones (such as dialogs, charts, and grids), mostly because of the time required for consolidation and standardization of their APIs, a better solution is to allow developers to extend the existing elements in the way they want. Web components...

The evolution of ECMAScript

Nowadays, browser vendors are releasing new features in short iterations, and users receive updates quite often. This helps developers take advantage of bleeding-edge web technologies. ES2015 is already standardized. The implementation of the latest version of the language has already started in the major browsers. Learning the new syntax and taking advantage of it will not only increase our productivity as developers but will also prepare us for the near future when all browsers will have full support for it. This makes it essential to start using the latest syntax now.

The requirements of some projects may enforce us to support older browsers, which do not support any ES2015 features. In this case, we can directly write ECMAScript 5, which has a different syntax, but has semantics equivalent to ES2015. On the other hand, a better approach will be...

Lessons learned from AngularJS in the wild

Although the previous section listed a lot of arguments for the required re-implementation of the framework responding to the latest trends, it's important to remember that we're not starting completely from scratch. We're taking what we've learned from AngularJS with us. In the period since 2009, the web is not the only thing that evolved. We also started building more and more complex applications. Today, single-page applications are not something exotic, but more like a strict requirement for all web applications solving business problems, which are aiming for high performance and a good user experience.

AngularJS helped us to efficiently build large-scale, single-page applications. However, by applying it in various use cases, we've also discovered some of its pitfalls. Learning from the community's experience...

Summary

In this chapter, we considered the main reasons behind the lack of backward compatibility between AngularJS and Angular. We saw that the design decisions implemented in Angular were fueled by two things: the evolution of the web and the evolution of the frontend development, with the lessons learned from the development of AngularJS applications.

In the first section, you learned why we need to use the latest version of the JavaScript language, why to take advantage of web components and web workers, and why it's not worth integrating all these powerful tools in AngularJS.

We observed the current direction of frontend development and the lessons learned in the last few years. We described why the controller and scope were removed from Angular, and why the architecture of AngularJS was changed in order to allow server-side rendering for SEO-friendly, high-performance...

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Key benefits

  • • Get up to date with Google’s vision for Angular
  • • Align with Angular version 5 and beyond from any direction with confidence
  • • Start using TypeScript to supercharge your Angular applications
  • • Understand the new framework from AngularJS perspective using your prior experience
  • • Use Angular to quickly build fast and scalable enterprise applications

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Align your work to stable APIs of Angular, version 5 and beyond, with Angular expert Minko Gechev. Angular is the modern Google framework for you to build high-performance, SEO-friendly, and robust web applications. Switching to Angular, Third Edition, shows you how you can align your current and future development with Google's long-term vision for Angular. Gechev shares his expert knowledge and community involvement to give you the clarity you need to confidently switch to Angular and stable APIs. Minko Gechev helps you get to grips with Angular with an overview of the framework, and understand the long-term building blocks of Google's web framework. Gechev then gives you the lowdown on TypeScript with a crash course, so you can take advantage of Angular in its native, statically typed environment. You'll next move on to see how to use Angular dependency injection, plus how Angular router and forms, and Angular pipes, are designed to work for your projects today and in the future. You'll be aligned with the vision and techniques of the one Angular, and be ready to start building quick and efficient Angular applications. You'll know how to take advantage of the latest Angular features and the core, stable APIs you can depend on. You'll be ready to confidently plan your future with the Angular framework.

Who is this book for?

This book is for software developers who want to align with a modern version of Angular that’s aligned with Google’s vision of Angular version 5 and beyond, using stable APIs that they can depend on today and in the future. Also for anyone assessing changes to Angular and squaring up for a strategic migration to Angular v5, and for AngularJS developers who want to transfer their mindset to modern Angular version 5 and beyond.

What you will learn

  • Align with Google's vision for Angular version 5 and beyond
  • Confidently move forward with a long-term understanding of Angular
  • Use stable APIs in Angular to build future-proof, blazingly fast enterprise applications
  • Work with TypeScript to supercharge your Angular applications
  • Understand the core concepts of Angular, aligned with the vision from Google
  • Be ready with Angular from any direction—whether you're building new apps with the Angular and ASP.NET stack, or upgrading from AngularJS with ngUpgrade

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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
Switching to the One Angular Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Get Going with Angular Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Building Blocks of an Angular Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TypeScript Crash Course Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dependency Injection in Angular Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with the Angular Router and Forms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tooling and Development Experience Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Dimitar B. Feb 21, 2018
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Great book for people like me migrating from AngularJS to Angular, and people starting now with Angular. Minko gives great explanation, beeing a part of the angular mobile team and actively contributing to the ecosystem. He is giving an extecive insight of how and why angular is working. The latest version 5. Long term development of an application. How to develop and improve an enterprise level application.
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Very well written and packed with insightful information by Minko and from Angular team members, you get an inside-scoop on the how’s and why’s of Angular.If Angular or Typescript seem overwhelming to you when trying to get started with Angular, by the time you read through this book you’ll feel more confident about everything.Minko lays out a great foundation for readers to not only get started with Angular, but to truly have a deeper understanding of -what- they are doing, and how it all fits together.
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John Peters Apr 08, 2018
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I didn't realize by reading the title that it was targeted for migrating from Angular 1.0 to Angular 5.0. The book, as a result spends a ton of time looking backward. That aspect is just noise to me. I should have read the previews as set my mind on the fact this is about migration. Sure there's good stuff for what's new, but to me it isn't a primer on Angular 5.0 as I expected.
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The book is full of bits and pieces, and presumes prior knowledge in some places, and explains simple concepts in others.
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Can't really comment on its content, because I received a copy which was printed with extremely light ink rendering most of the book unreadable.
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