Get Started With Angular: An Opinionated Guide

Written for Angular 4.2.x, Angular CLI 1.4.4 and TypeScript 2.4.2

Why this book?

Many books give you everything you could possibly need to know about Angular. A lot of facts. A lot of how. Very little “Why?” Few opinions. They take forever to wade through and in the end, you still have several decisions to make.

Instead, this book is a training manual. Wherever possible, you are told not just how, but why. It is a book that comes as a result of actually training programmers new to Angular. It answers the questions that come up as a result of using Angular.

This book is for you if want to learn about:

• Node, NPM and the Angular CLI.
• Components, Module, Services and how they relate to each other.
• How to include CSS and JavaScript in your application the right way.
• Reactive Forms vs Templated Forms.
• RxJS, Observables, and Functional Reactive Programming.
• NgRX state management, Actions, Reducers and Effects.
• Smart components vs Dumb components.
• Routes, passing parameters, and Lazy Loading.
• Angular the way most organizations use it.
• Battle tested design patterns, architecture and coding standards.

This book is not for you if:

• You are looking for a book on AngularJS (AKA version 1.x).
• You want to know everything there is to know about Angular.
• You have no intention of doing the exercises.
• You have no prior experience programming.

You also get access to all the source code, step by step, on GitHub.

Find a problem?

Any problems, as well as the step by step source for the main exercise, can be found at https://github.com/DaveMBush/get-started-with-angular help your fellow programmer and report any issues using the GitHub issue tracker there.