You're reading from Angular Projects Build modern web apps by exploring Angular 12 with 10 different projects and cutting-edge technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205260

Length 344 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Aristeidis Bampakos

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Web Application in Angular

2. Chapter 2: Building an SPA Application with Scully and Angular Router FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Building an Issue Tracking System using Reactive Forms

4. Chapter 4: Building a PWA Weather Application Using Angular Service Worker

5. Chapter 5: Building a WYSIWYG Editor for the Desktop using Electron

6. Chapter 6: Building a Mobile Photo Geotagging Application Using Capacitor and 3D Maps

7. Chapter 7: Building an SSR Application for a GitHub Portfolio Using Angular

8. Chapter 8: Building an Enterprise Portal Using Nx Monorepo Tools and NgRx

9. Chapter 9: Building a Component UI Library Using Angular CLI and Angular CDK

10. Chapter 10: Customizing Angular CLI Commands Using Schematics

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Essential background theory and context

An Angular application consists of several pages that are created dynamically in the DOM of the browser by the Angular framework while we use the application. Angular Universal enables the Angular framework to create these pages on the server statically during application runtime. In other words, it can create a fully static version of an Angular application that can run even without needing to have JavaScript enabled. Prerendering an application on the server has the following advantages:

It allows web crawlers to index the application and make it discoverable and linkable on social media websites.
It makes the application usable to mobile and other low-performant devices that cannot afford to execute JavaScript on their side.
It improves the user experience by loading the first page quickly and, at the same time, loading the actual client page in the background (First Contentful Paint (FCP)).
Important note
The application does...