Mastering Angular 2 Components

Learn to build component-based user interfaces of the future using Angular 2

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Mastering Angular 2 Components

Mastering

Gion Kunz
May 2016

Learn to build component-based user interfaces of the future using Angular 2

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Book Details

ISBN 139781785884641

Paperback340 pages

Book Description

You will learn how to use Angular 2 and its component-based architecture in order to develop modern user interfaces. A new holistic way of thinking about UI development will be established throughout this book, and you will discover the power of Angular 2 components with many examples.

After reading the book and following the example application, you will have built a small to mid-sized application with Angular 2, using a component-based UI architecture.

At a higher level, your journey could be outlined as follows:

You'll discover the benefits of component-based user interfaces over the classical MVC design. Also, you will get a chance to compare classical MVC with a component-based approach and understand the challenges of modern user interfaces. You will learn the very basics of the required core technologies and the setup needed to get going with Angular 2, and progressively enhance your understanding of Angular 2 components by working on the example application.

What You Will Learn

Concept of a component-based UI architecture
Angular 2 core concepts
Technologies used to work with Angular 2 (mainly ES6)
Basic and advanced use of Angular 2 components
Using dependency injection within Angular 2 components
Testing Angular 2 components with testing frameworks
Structuring an application using Angular 2
Building an entire application from A to Z using Angular 2

Authors

Gion Kunz

Gion Kunz has years of experience with web technologies and is totally in love with the web standards. With over 10 years of experience in writing interactive user interfaces using JavaScript, he is constantly evaluating new approaches and frameworks. He’s working with AngularJS for over 3 years now and is one of the earliest adopters of Angular 2. Gion speaks about Angular 2 at conferences and he’s helping with the organization of the Zurich Angular Meetup group in Switzerland.

He works for the start-up company oddEVEN in Zurich, where they help customers build websites and applications. Besides working for oddEVEN, Gion is a head instructor at the SAE Institute in Zurich and loves to get his students enthusiastic about the Web.

He is also the creator of the responsive charting library Chartist, and he loves to contribute to the open source community whenever he finds time.

If Gion is not busy with web technologies, you can probably find him at his home music studio; outdoors, fishing; or spending quality time with his girlfriend and their cute little dog.