What this book covers
Chapter 1, Building Our First App – 7 Minute Workout, teaches us how to build our first real Angular app. In the process, we will learn more about one of the primary building blocks of Angular, components. We will also be introduced to Angular’s templating constructs, databinding capabilities, and services.
Chapter 2, Personal Trainer, introduces a new exercise where we morph the 7 Minute workout into a generic Personal Trainer app. This app has the capability to create new workout plans other than the original 7 minute workout. This chapter covers Angular’s form capabilities and how we can use them to build custom workouts.
Chapter 3, Supporting Server Data Persistence, deals with saving and retrieving workout data from the server. We augment Personal Trainer with persistence capabilities as we explore Angular's http client library and how it uses RxJS Observables.
Chapter 4, Angular Directives in Depth, goes deep into the inner workings of Angular directives and components. We build a number of directives to support Personal Trainer.
Chapter 5, 1.21 Gigawatt – Flux Pattern Explained, teaches what the Flux pattern is and what concepts it consists of. It shows how to implement the Flux pattern using stores, a dispatcher, and several views.
Chapter 6, Functional Reactive Programming, drills down into certain properties of functional programming, such as higher-order functions, immutability, and recursion. Furthermore, we look at how to make code reactive and what reactive means.
Chapter 7, Manipulating Stream and Their Values, focuses a lot on educating the reader on operators, the thing that gives RxJS its power. The reader should leave this chapter with a lot more knowledge about how to manipulate data as well as Observables.
Chapter 8, RxJS Advanced, goes deeper and tries to explain more advanced concepts in RxJS, such as hot and cold Observables, subjects, error handling, and how to test your RxJS code with Marble testing.
Chapter 9, Create a Local Weather Web Application, introduces the Kanban method of software development with easy-to-use design tools used to communicate ideas. It also covers Angular fundamentals, unit testing, and leveraging CLI tools to maximize your impact.
Chapter 10, Prepare Angular App for Production Release, covers how to use containerization with Docker to enable cloud deployments.
Chapter 11, Enhance Angular App with Angular Material, introduces you to Angular material and explains how to use it to build great-looking apps.
Chapter 12, Create a Router-First Line-of-Business App, focuses on the Router-first architecture, a seven-step approach to the design and development of mid-to-large applications.
Chapter 13, Continuous Integration and API Design, goes over continuous integration using CircleCI and early integration with backend APIs using Swagger.
Chapter 14, Design Authentication and Authorization, dives into authentication- and authorization-related patterns in Angular and RESTful applications.
Chapter 15, Angular App Design and Recipes, contains recipes commonly needed for line-of-business applications.
Chapter 16, Highly-Available Cloud Infrastructure on AWS, moves beyond application features to go over provisioning a highly-available cloud infrastructure on AWS.