Get Pro Angular 16, the most comprehensive guide to the Angular web framework available.

Thousands of web developers have relied on Adam Freeman’s Pro Angular series to get the most out of the Angular framework. Now in this revised sixth edition, Adam takes you from Angular’s basic components to its most complex functions, highlighting common pitfalls and new features such as signals.

In this thoroughly updated bestseller, you’ll learn how to:

• Set up Angular dev tools and create projects


• Use features such as components, directives, services, and pipes


• Manage data changes with signals


• Navigate app features with URL routing


• Optimize Angular apps with pre-rendering and server-side rendering


• Use popular component libraries

Pro Angular 16 gives you everything you need to build Angular apps that are easy to test, easy to maintain, and easy to extend and scale. You’ll start with the basics—plus a refresher on HTML and TypeScript. You’ll quickly move on to explore Angular’s built-in functionalities and customization options, then dive into advanced features like asynchronous HTTP requests and component libraries.

About the technology

Angular is a powerful professional web framework suitable for building everything from lightweight prototypes to full-featured business applications. Created by Google and honed to perfection by millions of developers worldwide, Angular helps you deliver fast, predictable results when it counts.

About the book

Now in its sixth edition, Pro Angular 16 shows you the path to Angular mastery. This thoroughly revised book helps you build a toolbox of Angular skills, from directives and components to creating services and optimizing application delivery. Throughout, you’ll use your skills to build a professional-level project—a SportStore e-commerce complete with checkout, administration, and deployment. Along the way, you’ll pick up some great TypeScript techniques that will boost your web dev productivity.

What's inside

• Set up Angular dev tools and create projects


• Manage data changes with signals


• Navigate app features with URL routing


• Use popular component libraries

About the reader

For web developers who know basic JavaScript and HTML.

About the author

Adam Freeman has written over fifty bestselling books on software development. He has held numerous senior IT positions, most recently as CTO and COO of a global bank.

Table of Contents

1 Getting Ready

PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH ANGULAR

2 Jumping right in

3 Primer, Part 1

4 Primer, Part 2

5 SportsStore: a real application

6 SportsStore: orders and checkout

7 SportsStore: administration

8 SportsStore: deployment

PART 2: ANGULAR IN DETAIL

9 Understanding Angular projects and tools

10 Angular reactivity and signals

11 Using Data Bindings

12 Using the built-in directives

13 Using events and forms

14 Creating attribute directives

15 Creating structural directives

16 Understanding components

17 Using and creating pipes

18 Using services

19 Using and creating modules

PART 3: ADVANCED ANGULAR FEATURES

20 Creating the example project

21 Using the forms API, part 1

22 Using the forms API, part 2

23 Making HTTP Requests

24 Routing and navigation: part 1

25 Routing and navigation: part 2

26 Routing and navigation: part 3

27 Optimizing application delivery

28 Working with component libraries

29 Angular unit testing