Getting Started With Angular

Chapter 1: What is Angular?

1. What is Angular?
2. Some examples of the type of projects built with Angular
3. Angular’s history
4. Why use Angular?
5. Features of Angular
6. The Client Contacts Manager Application
7. Summary

Chapter 2: Angular Architecture

1. Overview of Angular
2. Installing the Angular CLI
3. Installing Visual Studio Code
4. The architecture of an Angular app
5. The architecture of our Client Contacts application
6. Summary

Chapter 3: Getting Started with the Angular CLI

1. How a CLI helps Angular developers
2. Installing the Angular CLI
3. Creating the Client Contacts Manager application
4. Running your application in the browser
5. Commands of the Angular CLI
6. What are Schematics?
7. Summary

Chapter 4: Components, Templates, and Forms

1. Components
2. What are components?
3. Why do we have components now?
4. The structure of a component
5. The Component class
6. The component life cycle hooks
7. Passing data into and out of components
8. Component templates
9. Categories of components
10. An introduction to forms
11. Creating a Reactive form
12. When to use template forms
13. When to use Reactive forms
14. Summary

Chapter 5: NgModules

1. What are modules in Angular?
2. The parts of the NgModule file
3. How to create modules using the CLI
4. Creating modules for our Client Contact Manager application
5. Adding our Client components to the ClientModule
6. Adding Angular Material
7. Summary

Chapter 6: Routing and Navigation

1. What are routes?
2. Creating our navigation component
3. Route parameters
4. Route Guards
5. Implementing a Route Guard
6. Summary

Chapter 7: Dependency Injection, Services, and HttpClient

1. What is Dependency Injection?
2. How does Angular handle Dependency Injection
3. Providers in Angular
4. Services in Angular
5. A look at the services Angular provides
6. The HttpClient service
7. Features of the HttpClient API
8. Advanced features of HttpClient service
9. Summary

Chapter 8: Observables and RxJs

1. Observables
2. What is RxJs?
3. Operators
4. Examples of Operators
5. The Operator Decision Tree
6. Subjects
7. How Angular uses RxJs
8. Summary

Chapter 9: State Management and NgRx

1. Defining state management
2. The Redux library
3. Exploring NgRx
4. Example of a Reducer
5. Example of an Action
6. Example of the Store
7. Example of Selectors
8. Effects
9. Installing NgRx
10. Summary
11. Further Reading

Chapter 10: Testing

1. Testing and Test Driven Development
2. Jasmine in action
3. Setup and tear down of tests
4. The Karma test runner
5. Taking a Test Driven Development approach
6. Karma settings in Angular
7. Running tests using the Angular CLI
8. Writing tests in Angular
9. The TestBed class
10. Examples of tests
11. Summary

Chapter 11: Packaging Our Application

1. Building a release version with the CLI
2. The angular.json file
3. Ahead-of-Time compilation
4. Other various production optimisations
5. Making use of lazy loading
6. Application size budget
7. Measuring performance

Summary