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MEAN Cookbook

You're reading from MEAN Cookbook The meanest set of MEAN stack solutions around

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286573

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

McClay

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Working with Angular 4 FREE CHAPTER

2. Enhancing Your User Interface

3. Working with Data

4. Using Express Web Server

5. REST APIs and Authentication

6. Cloud Service Integrations

7. MongoDB and Mongoose

8. Relationships

9. Build Systems and Optimizations

10. Debugging

11. Automated Testing

12. Whats new in Angular 4

Optimizing Font-Awesome with custom font generation

Icon fonts are a web development and design convenience that made a big splash through their use within the bootstrap CSS framework and the highly popular open source Font-Awesome icon font. However, these icon fonts can have a hidden file size cost, which is that they can contain hundreds of extra icons your application isn't using, but that are still being loaded in the browser by the user.

What we really want is the benefit and flexibility of using an icon font, that only includes the icons we actually need. Such a practice can be done manually through font generation tools such as icomoon.io. However, it is also possible to fully automate this process using our WebPack build system to automatically generate this custom icon font for us.

Getting ready

Let's build a custom web font to replace our full Font-Awesome library usage. We will continue to leverage all the advanced features of Font-Awesome, including our angular2-fontawesome module...

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Authors (1)

McClay

McClay

Nicholas McClay is a software developer and designer with over a decade of JavaScript experience in both corporate and startup technology companies. He is an avid Node.js and JavaScript enthusiast and the founder of the greater Pittsburgh regions Node.js and Angular meetups. A self-described user experience developer, he balances using both design and development disciplines to solve problems. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he acquired a bachelor's of science degree in Game Art and Design, a passion that springboarded him into a career of interactive experience design. His previous work experience includes Autodesk, where he worked on next-generation integrated cloud services. His current role is as the UX Lead of Wombat Security Technologies, where he helps bridge the gap between the customers' user experience and the underlying technology and product decisions that deliver it. He enjoys video games, tinkering and creating things, and lives with his loving wife, son, and daughter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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