Introduction to Angular | Angular Essentials JumpStart

Course Objectives

Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

• What Angular is and why should you use it
• How Angular reduces the amount of code that you must write to add rich functionality to both existing and new web pages
• What TypeScript is, why it is useful, and how to use it with Angular
• How to facilitate development and deployment using Angular CLI
• How to work with the various aspects of the Angular architecture to implement clean, responsive web interfaces
• How Routers can support navigation within a Single Page Application
• What the best practices are for using Angular so that it works unobtrusively and performs well
• How to use Angular with HTTP to support JSON, REST, and other services
• Best practices for Angular so that it works unobtrusively and performs well
• What Angular 9 Angular 10 brings to the table

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

In order to be successful in this class, incoming attendees are required to have current, hands-on experience in developing basic web applications, and be versed in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.  This is an introductory level Angular development course but an intermediate level web development class, designed for experienced web developers that need to further extend their skills in web development.

Please see the Related Courses tab for specific Pre-Requisite courses, Related Courses that offer similar skills or topics, and next-step Follow-On Courses and Learning Path recommendations.

Course Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

Session: Getting Started with Angular

Lesson: Overview of Angular Architecture

• Angular Versioning
• Model-View-*
• Data Binding
• Components and Dependency Injection
• Services and Events
• Common Component Lifecycles and Hooks

Lesson: Getting Started with TypeScript

• Angular, ES6 and TypeScript
• Transpilers
• Typing and Classes
• Abstract Classes and Interfaces
• Annotations

Lesson: Bootstrapping with Angular CLI

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

Lesson: Angular Project Structure

• Configuration Files

• Top-Level Directories
• Contents of app folder

Session: Unit Testing with Angular

Lesson: Testing and Angular

• Testing Dependencies
• Options for Testing in Angular
• Karma
• Jasmine
• Protractor

Session: Working with Angular

Lesson: Components and Events

• Data Binding and Components
• Event Binding
• Custom Events
• Parent/Child Events
• EventEmitter/emit()

Lesson: Third Party Libraries

• Angular and the Need for Libraries
• Options for adding Libraries
• Working with npm install
• Working with angular.json
• ng2 Wrappers

Lesson: Dynamic Views

• View Encapsulation
• Structural/Attribute Directives
• Conditional Styling

Lesson: Pipes

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

Session: Angular Forms

Lesson: Forms and the Forms API

• Forms and NgModel
• NG Form Groups
• NG Form Validation
• Model-Driven Reactive Forms
• FormBuilder API
• Reactive Form Validation

Session: Single Page Applications and Routes

Lesson: Single Page Applications

• Overview of the SPA Concept
• Routing for Page Display
• Working with ActivatedRouter
• Location Strategies
• Nested Routes

Lesson: Services and Dependency Injection

• Angular’s DI Framework
• Components and Injectables
• Tree-shakeable providers
• Service Interfaces and DI
• Constructor Injection

Lesson: Modules

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

Session: Using RESTful Services

Lesson: Overview of REST

• REpresentational State Transfer
• REST and HTTP
• REST/HTTP: Representation-Oriented
• REST Design Principles

Lesson: Angular and REST

• REST in Angular
• Promises, Observables, Subject
• HttpClient and Observables
• async Pipes and HttpClient Interceptors

Session: Angular Best Practices

Lesson: Angular Style Guide

• Recent Angular Improvements
• Upgrading Angular
• Single Responsibility Principle
• Naming Conventions
• Coding Conventions
• Application Structure
• Routing

Lesson: What is New in Angular 9 (or newer versions if applicable)

• Angular 9 and the Ivy Compiler and Runtime
• Bundling Improvements
• Improvements to Testing Performance
• New Debugging Features
• Improved Update Processes
• Updating from Angular 8

Bonus Topics (Time Permitting)

Lesson: ES6

• ES6 Classes and Modules
• ES6 Arrow Functions and Array Methods
• ES6 Template Literals
• ES6 Spread Operator, Rest Parameter and Destructuring

Lesson: Sass and SCSS for Angular and Material

• Variables
• Nesting
• Partials
• Import
• Mixins
• Extend/Inheritance
• Operators

Course Materials

Student Materials: Each participant will receive a digital Student Guide and/or Course Notes, code samples, software tutorials, step-by-step written lab instructions (as applicable), diagrams and related reference materials and resource links. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.

Hands-On Setup Made Simple! Our dedicated tech team will work with you to ensure our ‘easy-access’ cloud-based course environment, or local installation, is accessible, fully-tested and verified as ready to go well in advance of the course start date, ensuring a smooth start to class and effective learning experience for all participants. In some cases we can also help you install this course locally if preferred. Please inquire for details and options.

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