Discover everything you need to know to build your own Angular 2 applications the hands-on way
About This Book
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
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.
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
In Detail
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 ҇uess the Number' game, which serves as a platform to launch you into the world of Angular. Next, you will learn to construct a popular ѷ-Minute Workout' app, covering the building blocks of Angular. The final app, Ґersonal Trainer' morphs the existing ѷ-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.
Style and approach
This project-based book will get you building fun projects to see how Angular works in the wild. The book focuses more on doing things rather than just reading the theory. The chapters are structured to introduce the concept, then implement it, and finally explain why it worked.
