Angular 2
Angular 2
A Practical Introduction to the new Web Development Platform Angular 2 (Angular.js, Angular.js 2, AngularJS, AngularJS 2, ng2)
About the Book
This book will be updated continuously to new releases of Angular 2.
Learn to write Angular 2 applications from scratch
In this book you'll learn everything about the new Angular 2 platform by following practical examples. This book starts from scratch and is suitable for beginners. No AngularJS 1.x knowledge is necessary. You just need to have a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript to follow the easy and practical examples provided.
What is Angular 2?
Angular 2 is the next major version of Google's popular JavaScript-based web framework. Angular 2 is designed for building complex applications for the browser. In contrast to version 1.x, Angular 2 introduces a complete new concept of building web applications. In this book you will learn the basic concepts and explore the new building blocks of Angular by following the practical code examples.
What you'll learn
This books guides you through all new aspects of Angular 2. You'll get a real-world understanding of how Angular 2 can be applied in your own web and mobile applications. You'll also learn the following:
- How to build Angular 2 Components
- Using Lifecycle Events to control your application state
- Embedding Templates to create dynamic output
- Implementing interactive Forms
- Understanding and using Pipes
- Using the new Angular 2 Routing System
- Getting to know the concept of Dependency Injection & Services and use it in your Angular 2 application
- Sending and receiving data by using the HTTP client
Updates for upcoming releases
This book will be updated to keep information up to date with new Angular 2 releases.
Code Samples
Code samples are provided in a GitHub repository to download and use for learning or within your own projects.
If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Book Sample / Preview
A book sample in PDF format can be downloaded here.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Chapter 01: Introduction
- Why Angular 2 Rocks
- Who This Book Is For
- Code Examples On GitHub
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Chapter 02: Writing your First Angular 2 Application
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Preparing your Development Environment
- Installing Project Dependencies
- TypeScript Compiler Configuration
- SystemJS Configuration
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Implementation
- Implementing AppModule
- Implementing AppComponent
- Implementing the View
- Loading Components and Bootstrapping the Application
- Running the Application
- GitHub
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Preparing your Development Environment
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Chapter 03: Modules, Components and Directives
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Modules
- Introduction to Angular 2 Modules Concept
- Angular 2 Modules VS. ECMAScript 6 Modules
- Application Module
- Feature Modules
- Angular 2 Standard Modules
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Components
- A Tree of Components - How to Structure your Application?
- What About Modules?
- Prepare the Project
- Creating the Todo Data Model
- Implementation of Component TodoItem
- Implementation of Component TodosList
- Implementation of AppComponent
- Implementation of TodosModule and AppModule
- Starting The Application
- Implementation of Component AddTodo
- Add Delete Functionality
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Built-in Angular 2 Directives
- What Are Built-in Directives?
- NgIf
- NgSwitch
- NgStyle
- NgClass
- NgFor
- NgNonBindable
- GitHub
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Modules
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Chapter 04: Events
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User Input Events
- The $event Object
- Local Template Variables
- Event Filtering
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Lifecycle Events
- Bootstrapping the Application
- Component Lifecycle
- GitHub
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User Input Events
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Chapter 05: Forms
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Template-driven Forms
- Preparing the Project Structure
- Implementing the Model
- Create The Form Component
- Form Template
- Applying Two-Way Binding
- Bootstrapping and Using Form Component
- Form And Control State
- Submitting The Form
- GitHub
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Template-driven Forms
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Chapter 06: Pipes
- Usage of Pipes
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Built-in Pipes
- DecimalPipe
- PercentPipe
- CurrencyPipe
- UpperCasePipe
- LowerCasePipe
- DatePipe
- AsyncPipe
- JsonPipe
- SlicePipe
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Custom Pipes
- Implementing Custom Pipes
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Pure And Impure Pipes
- Pure Pipes
- Impure Pipes
- Comparing Pure And Impure Pipes
- GitHub
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Chapter 07: Routing
- Sample Application of This Chapter
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Setup and Configuration
- Adding the Base Element
- Router Configuration
- Embed Route Output in Host View
- Router Links
- Data Service Implementation
- Implementing CarsListComponent
- Implementing CarDetailComponent
- Implementing CarFormComponent
- Implementing AboutComponent
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Routing URL Styles
- HTML 5 Style and Hash Location Style
- Location Strategies
- GitHub
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Chapter 08: Dependency Injection and Services
- Introduction
- A First Example With Dependency Injection
- Providers And Injectors
- Using Injectors To Make Services Exchangeable
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Types of Providers
- Aliased Class Providers
- Value Providers
- Factory Providers
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Injector Hierarchy
- Root Injector
- Module Injectors
- Component Injectors
- Resolving of Dependencies
- Singleton Behavior
- GitHub
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Chapter 09: Http Service
- Introduction
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Using the Angular 2 Http Client
- Importing HttpModule
- Injecting The Http Service
- Creating a Client Model
- Setting Up a Rest Back-end
- Fetching Data
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Using the Asynchronous Observable Pattern with RxJS
- Mapping the Response Object
- Error Handling
- Using the subscribe Function
- Sending Data
- Promises
- GitHub
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