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Essential Angular

Fast paced guide to Front-end web development with Angular

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|Sep 2025
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Essential Angular is a concise, complete overview of the key aspects of Angular, written by two Angular core contributors. The book covers the framework's mental model, its API, and the design principles behind it. It is fully up to date with the latest release of Angular.

Key Features

  • Written by two Angular core contributors
  • A complete overview of the key aspects of Angular
  • Up to date with the latest Angular release

Book Description

Essential Angular is a concise, complete overview of the key aspects of Angular, written by two Angular core contributors. The book covers the framework's mental model, its API, and the design principles behind it. This book is fully up to date with the latest release of Angular.

Essential Angular gives you a strong foundation in the core Angular technology. It will help you put all the concepts into the right places so you will have a good understanding of why the framework is the way it is. Read this book after you have toyed around with the framework, but before you embark on writing your first serious Angular application.

This book covers concepts such as the differences between Just-In-Time (JIT) and Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation in Angular, alongside NgModules, components and directives. It also goes into detail on Dependency Injection and Change Detection: essential skills for Angular developers to master. The book finishes with a look at testing, and how to integrate different testing methodologies in your Angular code.

What you will learn

  • Understand why and how to use JIT and AOT compilation in Angular
  • Bootstrap and inject NgModules
  • Learn about the component lifecycle
  • Understand the two phases of Change Detection
  • Visualize and parse the Injector tree
  • Understand advanced Lazy Loading
  • Integrate and run different testing strategies on your code

Who this book is for

To get the most from this book, you should already have a good understanding of Angular and general web development. The book dives quickly into the core Angular systems without stepping through the basics.

Table of Contents

  1. This book is a short, but at the same time, fairly complete overview of the key aspects of Angular: it covers the framework's mental model, its API, and the design principles behind it.
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https://github.com/packtpublishing/essential-angular
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78829-104-0
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 108