Building Large-Scale Web Applications with Angular

A definitive guide to frontend development with Angular from design to deployment

Key Features

• Develop web applications from scratch using Angular and TypeScript
• Explore reactive programming principles and RxJS to build and test apps easily
• Study continuous integration and deployment on the AWS cloud

Book Description

If you have been burned by unreliable JavaScript frameworks before, you'll be amazed by the Angular platform's maturity. With this book, you'll learn how Angular enables you to deliver high-quality, production-grade apps.

The Angular book guides you through the app development process right from design to deployment. You'll begin by creating a simple workout app, using the building blocks of Angular, and gradually morph it into a full-fledged personal workout builder and runner with advanced directive building—the most fundamental and powerful feature of Angular. You'll explore different ways and patters used to architect Angular applications using RxJS. As you progress, you'll be introduced to the router-first architecture, a 7-step approach to designing and developing mid-to-large line-of-business apps, with the help of recipes.

By the end of this book, you‘ll understand the scope of web development using Angular, Swagger, and Docker, and be well-versed with the learning patterns and practices necessary to become a successful developer on the web or team in the enterprise.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt books:

• Angular 6 by Example by Chandermani Arora, Kevin Hennessy
• Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx by Christoffer Noring
• Angular 6 for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications by Doguhan Uluca

What you will learn

• Get to grips with Angular by building a workout app
• Understand cross-component communication with Angular events
• Work with functional programming and asynchronous data streams
• Test and debug different features of your application
• Create full-stack web applications using Angular and the RESTful API
• Design secure and scalable apps to deploy on AWS

Who this book is for

If you're a JavaScript or frontend developer looking to gain comprehensive experience of using Angular for end-to-end enterprise-ready applications, this Learning Path is for you.

Table of Contents

1. Building Our First App - 7 Minute Workout
2. Personal Trainer
3. Supporting Server Data Persistence
4. Angular Directives in Depth
5. 1.21 Gigawatt - Flux Pattern Explained
6. Functional Reactive Programming
7. Manipulating Streams and Their Values
8. RxJS Advanced
9. Create a Local Weather Web Application
10. Prepare Angular App for Production Release
11. Enhance Angular App with Angular Material
12. Create a Router-First Line-of-Business App
13. Continuous Integration and API Design
14. Design Authentication and Authorization
15. Angular App Design and Recipes
16. Highly-Available Cloud Infrastructure on AWS

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 Hennessy is a Senior Software Engineer with Applied Information Sciences. He has 20 years' experience as a developer, team lead, and solutions architect, working on web-based projects, primarily using the Microsoft technology stack. 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.

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.

Doguhan Uluca is a software development expert for Excella Consulting in Washington, DC. He is the founder and director of the polyglot Tech Talk DC meetup and the creator of the DC Full Stack Web Summit conference. Doguhan has been published on DevPro and ACM. He is a speaker at international conferences, such as Ng-Conf, CodeStock, deliver:Agile and Agile XP. He is a full-stack JavaScript, Agile, and cloud engineering practitioner. Doguhan is an active contributor to the open source community, with libraries and tools published for JavaScript, Angular, Node, and MongoDB.