Preface

Welcome! If you are looking to learn about and get good at Angular development, you're in the right place. This book will aim to instill an Agile and DevOps mindset in you so that you confidently create reliable and flexible solutions. Whether you consider yourself a freelancer developing software for small businesses, a full-stack developer, an enterprise developer, or a web developer, what you need to know to design, architect, develop, maintain, deliver, and deploy a web application and the best practices and patterns you need to apply to achieve those things don't vary all that much. If you're delivering an application to an audience of users, in a sense, you are a full-stack developer, since you must be aware of a lot of server technologies. In fact, if you master how to deliver Angular applications using TypeScript, it won't be difficult for you to write your own RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express.js, and TypeScript, but that is beyond the scope of this book.

By some definitions, a full-stack developer needs to know everything from catering to international copyright law to successfully creating and operating an application on today's web. If you're an entrepreneur, in a sense, this is true. However, in this book, your culinary skills and your law degree do not apply. This book assumes that you already know how to write a RESTful API with the tech stack of your choice, and if not, fear not! You can still benefit and understand how to work with RESTful APIs.

Who this book is for

This book is for beginners and experienced developers alike who are looking to learn Angular or web development in general. If you are an Angular developer, you will be exposed to the entire gamut of designing and deploying an Angular application to production. You will learn about Angular patterns that are easy to understand and teach others. If you are a freelancer, you will pick up effective tools and technologies to deliver your Angular app in a secure, confident and reliable way. If you an enterprise developer, you will learn patterns and practices to write Angular applications with a scalable architecture.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting Up Your Development Environment, goes over a scriptable way to set up your environment.

Chapter 2, Create a Local Weather Web Application, introduces the Kanban method of software development with easy-to-use design tools used to communicate ideas. It also covers Angular fundamentals, unit testing, and leveraging CLI tools to maximize your impact.

Chapter 3, Prepare Angular App for Production Release, covers how to troubleshoot your Angular app, and using containerization with Docker to enable cloud deployments.

Chapter 4, Staying Up to Date with Angular Updates, goes over strategies and the reasons for keeping your development tools and environment up to date.

Chapter 5, Enhance Angular App with Angular Material, introduces you to Angular material and explains how to use it to build great-looking apps.

Chapter 6, Reactive Forms and Component Interaction, teaches you to become comfortable using Angular forms and reactive programming using RxJS.

Chapter 7, Create a Router-First Line-of-Business App, focuses on the Router-first architecture, a seven-step approach to the design and development of mid-to-large applications.

Chapter 8, Continuous Integration and API Design, goes over continuous integration using CircleCI and early integration with backend APIs using Swagger.

Chapter 9, Design Authentication and Authorization, dives into authentication- and authorization-related patterns in Angular and RESTful applications.

Chapter 10, Angular App Design and Recipes, contains recipes commonly needed for line-of-business applications.

Chapter 11, Highly-Available Cloud Infrastructure on AWS, moves beyond application features to go over provisioning a highly-available cloud infrastructure on AWS.

Chapter 12, Google Analytics and Advanced Cloud Ops, goes over the nuances of owning, operating, and optimizing your cloud infrastructure, and using Google Analytics to capture user behavior.

To get the most out of this book

1. You should already be familiar with full-stack web development
2. Follow the book in the published order, coding your solution alongside the content in each chapter

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