Building Web Components with TypeScript and Angular 4

Angular is Google's foremost framework for developing high-performing, rock-solid web applications. Unlike most web apps, Angular apps are based on components, which means they're composed of interchangeable software elements that can be replaced and re-used. Angular's modularity ensures rapid development, high reliability, and ease of upgrading.



To create Angular components, developers can take advantage of a new language from Microsoft called TypeScript. TypeScript encompasses JavaScript, but provides many helpful features including classes, interfaces, static types, and improved tooling support. TypeScript gives you the best of both worlds: the object-oriented methodology of high-level languages and the speed and convenience of JavaScript.



To present these topics, the first chapters of the book provide a thorough introduction to the TypeScript language, from its new data types to its support for the document object model (DOM). After that, the book focuses on Angular and its many extraordinary capabilities, which include routing, form development, animation, and asynchronous operation. The last chapters of the book are particularly exciting, and discuss the Material Design library for Angular and the ability to customize graphics with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and HTML5.




Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introducing TypeScript and Angular

Chapter 2: TypeScript Development Tools

Chapter 3: TypeScript Basics

Chapter 4: Classes, Interfaces, and Mixins

Chapter 5: Declaration Files and the Document Object Model (DOM)

Chapter 6: Unit Testing and Decorators

Chapter 7: Modules, Web Components, and Angular

Chapter 8: Fundamentals of Angular Development

Chapter 9: Directives

Chapter 10: Dependency Injection

Chapter 11: Asynchronous Programming

Chapter 12: Routing

Chapter 13: HTTP and JSONP Communication

Chapter 14: Forms

Chapter 15: Animation, i18n, and Custom Pipes

Chapter 16: Material Design

Chapter 17: Testing Components with Protractor

Chapter 18: Displaying REST Data with Dynamic Tables

Chapter 19: Custom Graphics with SVG and the HTML5 Canvas