Angular 2 By Example

Get familiar with Angular 2 from the inside out by designing your own applications

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

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 the Angular view templating and data-binding capabilities
• Work on HTML forms and learn the Angular way to bind, validate, and form data
• Create component, structural, and attribute directives to extend the standard HTML behavior
• Integrate with the server back end and find out about data retrieval and persistence using Angular
• Gain some practical insight into the challenges of building apps using Angular and their solutions

Angular 2 will help you build faster, more efficient, and more flexible cross-platform applications. It has everything from a powerful view engine to an exceptional data binding framework and a design that embraces the future web. Angular 2 is known for taking the pain out of JavaScript development, enabling more organized, readable, and testable code.

This book builds three sample apps with varied degrees of complexity. It starts with a simple “Guess the Number” game, which serves as a platform to launch you into the world of Angular. Next you will learn to construct a popular “7 Minute Workout” app, covering the building blocks of Angular, including components, services, directives, pipes, and a whole lot more. The final app “Personal Trainer” morphs the existing “7 Minute Workout” into a full-fledged personal workout builder and runner, covering advanced directive building, which is the fundamental and most powerful feature of the Angular.

In addition to this, you will learn about testability and the framework constructs Angular provides to effectively test your app. You will also find out how to build a number of test suites for the “Personal Trainer” and “Workout Runner” apps. 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.