Learning Angular

A practical guide to building web applications with modern Angular

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Aristeidis Bampakos, Bonnie Brennan, Pablo Deeleman, Bonnie Brennan and Pablo Deeleman

Paid access

|Mar 2025

E-Book €26.99Institutions €125.95

Description

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.