Build modern SPAs by learning the latest and powerful features of Angular 5 and TypeScript 2.x About This Book * The best overview of Angular 5 on the market, this guide gathers together everything there is to know about Angular 5 and groups it into intuitive sections. * Learn to build, grow and test powerful and scalable mobile and desktop web applications with Angular * Explore the latest features of Angular 5 and TypeScript 2.4 by building a complete responsive application from scratch. * Deliver seamless web navigation experiences with application routing and state handling common features with ease * The author has done all the hard work of fitting everything Angular 5 means for developers, making this book the quickest way to learn Angular 5 from scratch. Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers who want to build the next generation of state-of-the-art mobile and desktop web applications with Angular. This book does not require you to have prior exposure to either Angular 1.x, 2 or 4, although comprehensive knowledge of JavaScript is assumed. What You Will Learn * Set up the workspace and the project using webpack and Angular-Cli * Explore the features of TypeScript and organize the code in ES6 modules * Work with HTTP and Data Services and understand how data can flow in the app * Create multiple views and learn how to navigate between them * Make the app beautiful by adding Material Design * Implement two different types of form handling and its validation * Add animation to some standard events such as route change, initialization, data load, and so on * Discover how to bulletproof your applications by introducing smart unit testing techniques and debugging tools In Detail The latest version of Angular comes with a lot of new features that help you to make your applications smaller and faster. This book will show you how to set up an Angular project, and you'll build Angular components right from the beginning. Moving on, you'll explore and work with the components to build your app. Next, you'll find out more about TypeScript and see how to use it to build apps in the best way possible. You'll then be introduced to the building blocks - Properties, Events, Directives, and Pipes - and how it can be used to implement and enhance the components. Additionally, you'll be using Angular components to organize your components in a scalable way. Then you'll understand how to get data in your app and add navigation to it. Furthermore, you'll deep dive and work with Forms, Authentication, and see how Material design will help you make your app beautiful in just a few short lines of code. Lastly, you'll see how to use animating components with Angular, and test and debug the app. All in all, the overall mission is to give you a great start when developing apps using Angular and TypeScript. Style and approach This book tells you everything there is to know about getting well-acquainted with Angular without bogging you down. Everything is neatly laid out under clear headings for quick consultation, giving you the information required to understand a concept immediately. You'll also get full coverage of the TypeScript syntax required to follow the examples included.

About the Author
Christoffer Noring is a software developer with more than 10 years of experience. He has successfully delivered software for different industries, ranging from telecom to aviation. Throughout his career, he has worked on everything, right from databases to frontends. He is very passionate about community and sharing knowledge, which is why he frequently speaks on topics ranging from TDD, React, and NativeScript to Angular. He also writes books and blogs frequently. He holds the title of Google Developer Expert in web technologies and AngularJS/Angular. He is also a Telerik Developer Expert in the mobile framework, NativeScript. Christoffer currently works for McKinsey as a fullstack developer. He is the author and maintainer of the book, RxJS Ultimate, which aims to be a free resource to help the community. Pablo Deeleman is a former UI/UX designer who fell in love with JavaScript and CSS back in 1998, during the good old days of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3. The discovery of Node.js back in 2011 became a turning point in his career, from where he decided to embrace full-time JavaScript-driven development, carving out a career as a JavaScript full stack engineer with special focus on single-page application development. With sound expertise in libraries and frameworks, such as Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Polymer, React, AngularJs, and Angular, Pablo Deeleman built his career in a wide range of companies encompassing internationally acclaimed tube sites, fintech start-ups, and award-winning gaming and gambling sites. He currently works as a senior frontend engineer and Angular specialist for Red Hat, the multinational company providing open source software products to the enterprise community. Pablo has also authored Learning Angular 2 (Packt, 2016) and currently lives in sunny and bustling Barcelona, where he fulfills his other great passion: playing piano.


Book Information
ISBN 9781787124929
Author Christoffer Noring
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint Packt Publishing Limited
Publisher Packt Publishing Limited