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Switching to Angular

You're reading from Switching to Angular Align with Google's long-term vision for Angular version 5 and beyond

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Published in Oct 2017

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ISBN-13 9781788620703

Length 280 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

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Angular

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Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Minko Gechev

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

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Preface

1. Switching to the One Angular

2. Get Going with Angular FREE CHAPTER

3. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application

4. TypeScript Crash Course

5. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives

6. Dependency Injection in Angular

7. Working with the Angular Router and Forms

8. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services

9. Tooling and Development Experience

Chapter 2. Get Going with Angular

On September 18, 2014, Google pushed the first public commit to the repository that now contains Angular. A few weeks later, at ng-europe, Igor, and Tobias, from the core team, gave a short overview of what were the expected features of the new framework. The vision at that time was far from final; however, one thing was certain: Angular would be an entirely different framework compared to AngularJS.

This announcement brought a lot of questions and controversies. The reasons behind the drastic changes were quite clear: AngularJS was no longer able to take full advantage of the evolved web and the requirements of large-scale JavaScript applications needed to be completely satisfied. A new framework would let Angular developers capitalize on developments in web technology in simpler, more performant, and productive ways. Yet, people were concerned. One of the biggest nightmares with backward incompatibility for developers is the migration of their current code...

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Authors (1)

Minko Gechev

Minko Gechev

Minko Gechev is a Google Developer Expert for the Angular team and a presenter at over 40 worldwide conferences, including ng-conf, AngularConnect, AngularUP, and many others. Minko is co-author of the official Angular style guide, and has developed codelyzer – a tool for static analysis of Angular applications and best practices, which is part of the Angular CLI, and currently has over a million downloads each month. Minko is a former member of the Angular Mobile Team where his role involved him with tools for facilitating the process of developing Progressive web applications with Angular easier. Other projects by the author include the AngularJS style guide, which is translated to 13 different languages, aspect.js, Angular Seed, and many others. Minko Gechev is co-founder and CTO at Rhyme and strongly believes in open source software.

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