Learning Angular - Fifth Edition: A practical guide to building web applications with modern Angular

by Aristeidis Bampakos, Bonnie Brennan (Foreword by), Pablo Deeleman (Foreword by)

Overview

Learn Angular by building a real-world e-shop web app, step-by-step from scaffolding to deployment, with expert guidance every step of the way Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format. “A must-read natural extension to Angular's official docs.” - Daniel Glejzner, Microsoft MVP, Nx Champion "Learning Angular provides the reader with an experience of building upon a simple application that is introduced at the beginning of the book." – Manfred Steyer, Google Developer Expert

Key Features

• Explore the basics of Angular development, from components and templates to forms, routing, and services
• Get up to speed with the new paradigms modern Angular brings, including standalone APIs, new control flow syntax, Signals, and server-side rendering (SSR)
• Discover best practices for building, deploying, debugging, and testing Angular applications

Book Description

Dive into Angular Development — With the Most Trusted Guide in the Industry Angular is one of the most powerful and widely adopted JavaScript frameworks and Learning Angular is your go-to guide for building real-world, production-ready web applications from the ground up. Written by a seasoned Angular developer and Google Developer Expert, this hands-on guide walks you through every step of modern frontend development. This edition captures the latest evolution in the Angular ecosystem, often referred to as the “Angular Renaissance.” You'll work with standalone components, Angular Signals, and the updated control flow syntax, while also learning how to bridge these advancements with legacy code. A brand-new chapter explores how to boost performance with server-side rendering (SSR) and hydration. More than just a tutorial, Learning Angular builds your confidence chapter by chapter, from scaffolding your first project to deploying it and applying TypeScript best practices along the way. Whether you're new to Angular or brushing up your skills, this book offers a complete path to becoming a productive and future-ready Angular developer. By the end, you’ll not only be able to build Angular apps from scratch, you’ll be equipped to build them with clarity, structure, and confidence.

What you will learn

• Use the Angular CLI to scaffold, build, and deploy new Angular applications
• Create Angular applications using standalone APIs
• Build rich components with Angular template syntax
• Apply reactivity patterns with the RxJS library and Signals
• Craft beautiful user interfaces using Angular Material
• Create HTTP data services to access APIs and provide data to components
• Improve your debugging and error handling skills during runtime and development
• Optimize application performance with SSR and hydration techniques

Who this book is for

This book is for JavaScript developers and web developers dipping their feet for the first time in the world of frontend development with Angular, as well as those migrating to the Angular framework to build professional web applications. Current Angular developers looking to catch up with modern Angular will also find this book useful. You'll need prior exposure to JavaScript and a solid foundation in the basics of web programming before you get started with this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781835087480
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/09/2025
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Aristeidis Bampakos is a Web Development Team Lead at Plex-Earth who specializes in the development of web applications with Angular. He has been an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE) since 2020 and works as an Angular Senior Tech Instructor at Code.Hub, a private educational institute, where he nurtures aspiring Angular developers and professionals. He is also the author of Angular Projects with Packt.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Building Your First Angular Application
2. Introduction to TypeScript
3. Structuring User Interfaces with Components
4. Enriching Applications Using Pipes and Directives
5. Managing Complex Tasks with Services
6. Reactive Patterns in Angular
7. Tracking Application State with Signals
8. Communicating with Data Services over HTTP
9. Navigating through Applications with Routing
10. Collecting User Data with Forms
11. Handling Application Errors
12. Introduction to Angular Material
13. Unit Testing Angular Applications
14. Bringing Applications to Production
15. Optimizing Application Performance