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Switching to Angular

You're reading from Switching to Angular Align with Google's long-term vision for Angular version 5 and beyond

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788620703

Length 280 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Minko Gechev

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Switching to the One Angular FREE CHAPTER

2. Get Going with Angular

3. The Building Blocks of an Angular Application

4. TypeScript Crash Course

5. Getting Started with Angular Components and Directives

6. Dependency Injection in Angular

7. Working with the Angular Router and Forms

8. Explaining Pipes and Communicating with RESTful Services

9. Tooling and Development Experience

Introduction to TypeScript

TypeScript is an open source programming language that is developed and maintained by Microsoft. Its initial public release was in October 2012. TypeScript is a superset of ECMAScript, supporting all of the syntax and semantics of JavaScript with some extra features on top, such as static typing and richer syntax.

Figure 1 shows the relationships among ES5, ES2015, ES2016, and TypeScript:

Figure 1

As TypeScript is statically typed, it can provide a number of benefits to us as JavaScript developers. Let's take a quick look at those benefits now.

Compile-time type checking

One of the most common mistakes we make while writing JavaScript code is to misspell a property or a method name. Usually...

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Authors (1)

Minko Gechev

Minko Gechev

Minko Gechev is a software engineer who strongly believes in open source software. He has developed numerous such projects including codelyzer, the AngularJS style guide, aspect.js and many others, and is one of the coauthors of the official Angular style guide.

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