Angular 2 By Example

Discover everything you need to know to build your own Angular 2 applications the hands-on way

Key Features

• Master the Angular way to structure, build, deploy, and test your code
• Understand Angular 2’s new component-based architecture
• Build a game and workout runner apps on the Angular platform

Book Description

Angular 2 will help you build faster, more efficient, and more flexible cross-platform applications. Angular 2 is known for taking the pain out of JavaScript development, and enabling more organized, readable, and testable code.

This book builds three apps with varying degrees of complexity. It starts with a simple Guess the Number game, which serves as a platform to launch you into the world of Angular. Next, you will learn to construct a popular 7-Minute Workout app, covering the building blocks of Angular. The final app, Personal Trainer morphs the existing 7-Minute Workout into a full-fledged personal workout builder and runner, covering advanced directive building, which is the most fundamental and powerful feature of Angular.

In addition to this, you will learn about testability and the framework constructs Angular provides to effectively test your app. The book concludes by providing you with practical advice and useful tips that will come in handy as you build more and more apps with Angular.

What you will learn

• Design, develop, deploy, and test the apps you build
• Work your way through every aspect of app development using Angular2
• Understand the inner workings of Angular’s view templating and data-binding capabilities
• Work on HTML forms and learn the Angular way to bind, validate, and format data
• Create component, structural, and attribute directives to extend standard HTML behavior
• Integrate with the server backend and find out about data retrieval and persistence using Angular
• Gain practical insight into the challenges of building apps using Angular as well as their solutions

Who this book is for

This book is for JavaScript developers who are new to Angular 2, or are familiar with the basics but want to take things a step further. If you are motivated to learn by doing things actively, this book is for you.

Chandermani Arora is a software craftsman, with love for technology and expertise on web stack. With years of experience, he has architected, designed, and developed various solutions for Microsoft platforms. He has been building apps on Angular 1 since its early days. Having a passion for the framework every project of his has an Angular footprint. He tries to support the platform in every possible way by writing blogs on various Angular topics or helping fellow developers on StackOverflow, where he is an active member on the Angular channel. He also authored the first edition of this book.

Kevin is a Senior Software Engineer with Applied Information Sciences. He has over 20 years' experience as a developer, team lead, and solutions architect, working on web-based projects, primarily using the Microsoft technology stack. He is the co-author of Angular 2 by Example and Angular 6 by Example. Over the last several years, he has presented and written about single-page applications and JavaScript frameworks, including Knockout, Meteor, and Angular. He has spoken about Angular at the All Things Open Conference and delivered multiple Angular training programs onsite at a Fortune 500 company.