Expert Angular: Build deep understanding of Angular to set you apart from the developer crowd - Softcover

Nayrolles, Mathieu; Gunasundaram, Rajesh; Rao, Sridhar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785880233 ISBN 13: 9781785880230

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Learn everything you need to build highly scalable, robust web applications using Angular release 4

About This Book

• Apply best practices and design patterns to achieve higher scalability in your Angular applications
• Understand the latest features of Angular and create your own components
• Get acquainted with powerful, advanced techniques in Angular to build professional web applications

Who This Book Is For

This book is for JavaScript developers with some prior exposure to Angular, at least through basic examples. We assume that you've got working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

What You Will Learn

• Implement asynchronous programming using Angular
• Beautify your application with the UI components built to the material design specification
• Secure your web application from unauthorized users
• Create complex forms, taking full advantage of 2-way data binding
• Test your Angular applications using the Jasmine and Protractor frameworks for better efficiency
• Learn how to integrate Angular with Bootstrap to create compelling web applications
• Use Angular built-in classes to apply animation in your app

In Detail

Got some experience of Angular under your belt? Want to learn everything about using advanced features for developing websites? This book is everything you need for the deep understanding of Angular that will set you apart from the developer crowd.

Angular has introduced a new way to build applications. Creating complex and rich web applications, with a lighter resource footprint, has never been easier or faster.

About this title

About the Author

Mathieu Nayrolles started his computer science studies in France and continued them in Montreal, Canada, where he now lives with his wife. He holds master's degrees from eXia.Cesi (Software Engineering) and UQAM (Computer Science) and he is now a PhD student at Concordia University (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Montreal, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Wahab Hamou-Lhadj.

Despite his academic journey, he also worked for worldwide companies such as Airbus, Saint-Gobain, Ericsson, and Ubisoft, where he learned how important good technical resources are.

He worked with AngularJS in 2011 and moved over Angular2 when the rc1 came out. During these 6 years, he acted as an Angular coach, mentor, and consultant for various companies in Canada, USA, and France. He also gives classes on Angular to software engineering students and professionals in Montreal, Canada.

Finally, he is the co-founder and CTO of toolwatch.io (a website and companion mobile apps that allow you to measure the precision of your mechanical watches), where he uses Angular daily.

You can discover some of his works through his other books: Xamarin Studio for Android Programming: A C# Cookbook, Mastering Apache Solr: A practical guide to get to grips with Apache Solr, Instant Magento Performances, and Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to, published by Packt.

Rajesh Gunasundaram is a software architect, technical writer and blogger. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than 12 years using Microsoft .NET, 2 years of BizTalk Server and a year of iOS application development.

Rajesh is a founder and editor of technical blogs programmerguide and ioscorner and you can find many of his technical writings on .Net and iOS. He is also the founder and developer of VideoLens, a platform that analyses videos uploaded in Facebook pages and YouTube channels. Rajesh has also written four other books for Packt publishing.

Rajesh worked on client premises located at various countries such as UK, Belarus and Norway. He also has experience in developing mobile applications for iPhone and iPad. His technical strengths include Azure, Xamarin, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, WCF, .Net Framework / .Net Core, C#, Objective-C, Angular, Bot Framework, BizTalk, SQL Server, REST, SOA, Design Patterns and Software Architecture.

Rajesh is an early adopter of Angular since AngularJS. He has developed Rich interfaces using Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3. He has good experience in translation of designer mock-ups and wireframes into an AngularJS front-end. Good at unit testing Angular applications with Karma. Expertise in handling RESTful services in Angular. Supporting various web products developed using AngularJS and Angular.

Sridhar currently works as a Technical Lead at a leading MNC, where he is part of digital practice. He has over 10 years of experience primarily focused on frontend engineering. He has previously worked with Oracle India, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Tech Mahindra.

To his credit, he has also led large teams implementing complex applications using AngularJS for a leading investment bank. He has successfully designed and developed reporting and dashboard application using hybrid AngularJS and Angular frameworks for a leading freight shipping company and a leading low-cost airline.

He has been a senior developer involved in migrating an entire business-critical application from AngularJS to Angular for a leading media giant.

He is author of the book PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces, published by Packt.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785880233
• ISBN 13: 9781785880230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454