Introduction to Angular 18 Essentials (TT4165)

Course Objectives

Learning Objectives

The course includes plenty of hands-on lab work designed to immerse you in the skills required to get you up and running with Angular right away.  Guided by our engaging, highly-experienced instructor, you will:

• Understand Angular Basics and Architecture: Grasp the fundamentals of Angular's architecture, including component creation and dependency injection, to build foundational web applications.
• Get Started with TypeScript and Angular CLI: Learn the essentials of TypeScript and use Angular CLI to set up and manage Angular projects efficiently.
• Create Interactive Interfaces with Data Binding and Directives: Develop interactive user interfaces using basic data binding techniques and directives for dynamic content updates.
• Implement Simple SPA Navigation: Configure basic Single Page Application (SPA) routing to enable smooth and intuitive navigation within Angular applications.
• Build and Validate Basic Reactive Forms: Learn to create and manage basic reactive forms in Angular, ensuring user input is handled effectively and validation is in place.

Need different skills or topics?  If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be easily adjusted to accommodate.  We offer additional Angular and web development and design courses which may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your development objectives.

Course Prerequisites

Audience

The content is appropriate for experienced web developers new to Angular. In order to be successful in the course, you should have solid, current hands-on experience developing basic web applications, and be well versed in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.  

NOTE: For additional topics, labs and skills coverage beyond the basics you might consider our TT4168 Mastering Angular 15 Boot Camp five-day superset of this course as an alternative.

Pre-Requisites

Take Before: Attendees should have experience with the topics in the following courses, or should have recently attended these as a pre-requisite:

• TT4003          Introduction to HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript - 3 days

Related Courses

The following is a small subset of related courses. We offer many additional courses and topics on modern web, mobile and full stack development. Please see the online catalog for a complete list of courses and learning paths.

• TT4002          Introduction to HTML5 / CSS3 - 2 days
• TT4003          Introduction to HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript - 3 days
• TT4110          Introduction to Moden JavaScript – 3 days
• TT4165          Introduction to Angular Essentials - 3-days
• TT4168          Mastering Angular Boot Camp - 5 days (superset of the TT4165)
• TT4169          Intermediate Angular
• TT4190          Getting Started with React Essentials – 3 days
• TT4195          Mastering React Boot Camp |With Redux, Flux, Unit Testing, JSX & More – 5 days (TT4190 superset)

Enhanced Learning Services: Please also ask about our robust Learning Experience Platform (LXP), Skills Assessment & Skills Prep Services, Skills Immersion Programs & Camps, Coaching and Mentoring Services and Extended Learning Support programs.

Course Agenda

1. Overview of Angular Architecture

• Angular Versioning
• Data Binding
• Component Architecture
  • Show concepts: how to render the content in the browser
• Components and Dependency Injection
• Services and Events
• Common Component Lifecycles and Hooks

2. TypeScript

• Angular, ES6 and TypeScript
• Typing and Classes
• Abstract Classes and Interfaces
• Interface patterns
• Annotations
• Generics
• Optional Chaining
• Nullish coalescing
• Decorators
• Functional vs Procedural JavaScript
• Functional Approach
• Lab: Angular and TypeScript – Enhanced lab

3. Bootstrapping with Angular CLI

• Angular CLI Overview
• New Projects with CLI
• Testing and Generating with CLI

4. Angular Basics

• Configuration Files
• Working with angular.json
• Top-Level Directories
• Contents of app folder
• Angular DevTools
• ng build
• Lab: Creating Projects with Angular CLI

Working with Angular

5. Components and Events

• Data Binding and Components
• Event Binding
• Custom Events
• Parent/Child Events
• EventEmitter/emit()
• New Input/Output function
• Lab: Nested Components –

6. Standalone Components

• Project Setup and Configuration
• Folder Structure
• Components
• Services
• Routing

• Versus non-standalone components
• Versus modules

7. Third Party Libraries

• Angular and the Need for Libraries
• Options for adding Libraries
• Working with npm install
• Lab: Third-Party Libraries

8. Dynamic Views - Directives

• View Encapsulation
• Structural/Attribute Directives
• Conditional Styling
• @if/@else
• @for
• @defer

• Lab: Working with Directives

9. Pipes

• Overview of Pipes
• Built-in Pipes
• Formatting and Conversions
• Parameterizing Pipes
• Pure vs. Impure Pipes
• Customizing Pipes
• Lab: Built-in and Custom Pipes

10. Signals and State

• What are Signals?
• How to read the value of a signal?
• How to modify the value of a signal?
• The update signal API
• Read-only signals
• The  computed()  Signal API
• How do we subscribe to a signal?
• Using effects

Angular Forms

11. Forms and the Forms API – focus on Reactive Forms

• Template Forms – Overview
• User Input/Interactions
• Model-Driven Reactive Forms
• FormBuilder API
• Reactive Form Validation
• Form’s new control state change events
• Lab: Reactive Forms

Single Page Applications and Routes

12. SPA - Routing

• Overview of the SPA Concept
• Routing for Page Display
• Working with ActivatedRoute
• Location Strategies
• Nested Routes
• Route redirects as functions
• Lab: Routing

Bonus Content / Time Permitting

13. Services (Dependency Injection)

• Angular’s DI Framework
• Components and Injectables
• Tree-shakeable providers
• Services Architecture
• Service Interfaces and DI
• Constructor Injection
• Inject function
• Scenarios for use
• Lab: Services

14. Modules

• Overview of Modules
• Feature Modules
• Feature Module Routing
• Shared Modules
• Lab: Modules

Course Materials

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