Getting Started With Angular

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What is Angular?
	What is Angular?
	Some examples of the type of projects built with Angular
	Angular's history
	Why use Angular?
	Features of Angular
	The Client Contacts Manager Application
	Summary
Chapter 2: Angular Architecture
	Overview of Angular
	Installing the Angular CLI
	Installing Visual Studio Code
	The architecture of an Angular app
	The architecture of our Client Contacts application
	Summary
Chapter 3: Getting Started with the Angular CLI
	How a CLI helps Angular developers
	Installing the Angular CLI
	Creating the Client Contacts Manager application
	Running your application in the browser
	Commands of the Angular CLI
	What are Schematics?
	Summary
Chapter 4: Components, Templates, and Forms
	Components
	What are components?
	Why do we have components now?
	The structure of a component
	The Component class
	The component life cycle hooks
	Passing data into and out of components
	Component templates
	Categories of components
	An introduction to forms
	Creating a Reactive form
	When to use template forms
	When to use Reactive forms
	Summary
Chapter 5: NgModules
	What are modules in Angular?
	The parts of the NgModule file
	How to create modules using the CLI
	Creating modules for our Client Contact Manager application
	Adding our Client components to the ClientModule
	Adding Angular Material
	Summary
Chapter 6: Routing and Navigation
	What are routes?
	Creating our navigation component
	Route parameters
	Route Guards
	Implementing a Route Guard
	Summary
Chapter 7: Dependency Injection, Services, and HttpClient
	What is Dependency Injection?
	How does Angular handle Dependency Injection
	Providers in Angular
	Services in Angular
	A look at the services Angular provides
	The HttpClient service
	Features of the HttpClient API
	Advanced features of HttpClient service
	Summary
Chapter 8: Observables and RxJs
	Observables
	What is RxJs?
	Operators
	Examples of Operators
	The Operator Decision Tree
	Subjects
	How Angular uses RxJs
	Summary
Chapter 9: State Management and NgRx
	Defining state management
	The Redux library
	Exploring NgRx
	Example of a Reducer
	Example of an Action
	Example of the Store
	Example of Selectors
	Effects
	Installing NgRx
	Summary
	Further Reading
Chapter 10: Testing
	Testing and Test Driven Development
	Jasmine in action
	Setup and tear down of tests
	The Karma test runner
	Taking a Test Driven Development approach
	Karma settings in Angular
	Running tests using the Angular CLI
	Writing tests in Angular
	The TestBed class
	Examples of tests
	Summary
Chapter 11: Packaging Our Application
	Building a release version with the CLI
	The angular.json file
	Ahead-of-Time compilation
	Other various production optimisations
	Making use of lazy loading
	Application size budget
	Measuring performance
Summary