Programming
Angular
After understanding how HTML5 and JavaScript work together you soon realize that to create truly capable web applications, the code becomes complex and expensive to maintain. That’s where Angular comes in. This framework allows us to drastically reduce the amount of JavaScript code written, making our web apps easier to understand at all levels. Angular lets developers think of their pages as sets of components and makes our web apps truly abstract.
Angular is the framework of choice for organizations who are creating the best and newest web applications. This fun and interactive course will get your developers ready to begin using Angular to keep you at the cutting edge of technology.
Audience
Client-side web developers with experience in HTML5 and JavaScript
PREREQUISITES
Understanding of HTML5 and a strong grasp of object-oriented JavaScript. Please ask about our 5-day JavaScript course which will prepare you for the JavaScript fluency needed for this course.
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop single page Angular applications using Typescript
- Set up a complete Angular development environment
- Create Components, Directives, Services, Pipes, Forms and Custom Validators
- Handle advanced network data retrieval tasks using Observables
- Consume data from REST web services using the Angular HTTP Client
- Handle push-data connections using the WebSockets protocol
- Work with Angular Pipes to format data
- Use advanced Angular Component Router features
- Test and debug Angular applications using built in tools
- Work with Angular CLI
Intro to Angular
- What Angular does for you
- How it evolved
- The heart of Angular
- It’s opinionated!
- The infrastructure
The Angular CLI
- Why the CLI?
- Installing
- Scaffolding an app
- Scaffolding components
- How to develop with the CLI
- Using the built-in node server
- Going to production
The Big Picture of Angular
- Components are the heart
- Properties vs attributes
- How it all fits together
- Modules
- Separation of logic from view
- The four kinds of bindings
- How Angular runs
- Why SPAs?
TypeScript Introduction
- JavaScript versions (es2015, to the present)
- Why use TypeScript?
- How TypeScript works behind the scenes
- TypeScript features needed for Angular
- Modules, arrow functions, and classes
- Public/private members
- Static typing with TypeScript
- Constructor shorthand
- Decorators
Components Introduction
- To create a component
- Interpolation – binding data from the class to the view
- Template references
- Expressions deep dive
- The 3 methods of styling a component
- Stylesheets
- styleUrls styles
Built-in Directives
- The 5 different types of directives
- Attribute directives
- ngStyle and ngClass
- The structural directives
- *ngIf
- *ngSwitchCase
- *ngFor
Angular Routing
- How Angular handles SPAs The steps to routing Setting the root of your SPA The router-outlet
- How to design and code your routes Handline a direct URL
- Pushing the user to a route via JavaScript Creating well-designed links
- Reading route parameters Reading queryStrings
Event Binding
- All the events Angular supports
- How to wire up the events
- Handling the event object
Forms and two-way binding
- Two-way binding with ngModel
- Avoiding the common mistakes
- Validation with status tokens
- Error tokens
- Automatic CSS class settings
Composition with Components
- The case for components
- The steps to compose
- Passing data from host to inner
- The trick to passing data back up
- Emitting custom events
- Two-way binding between components
Ajax in Angular
- Why Angular is the perfect place to handle Ajax and RESTful calls
- HttpClient and HttpClientModule
- How to handle the callback with Promises and async/await
- What’s in the response object
- How to unwrap it
Observables
- What is an observable?
- How they’re different from Promises
- How to create and process an observable
- Observables are lazy – why
- Pipeable (lettable) operators
- Using them with HTTP and RESTful services
Services in Angular (Time Permitting)
- Dispelling the wrong beliefs about services – What they really are
- Best practices and patterns
- How to add services
- Best placement in your project
- Writing and using custom services
Angular Pipes (Time Permitting)
- Pipes are like Unix pipes
- All the built-in Angular pipes
- How to create custom pipes
Modules (Time Permitting)
- Why modules?
- Shared modules
- Creating modules
- What goes in the decorators?
Is there a discount available for current students?
UMBC students and alumni, as well as students who have previously taken a public training course with UMBC Training Centers are eligible for a 10% discount, capped at $250. Please provide a copy of your UMBC student ID or an unofficial transcript or the name of the UMBC Training Centers course you have completed. Asynchronous courses are excluded from this offer.
What is the cancellation and refund policy?
Student will receive a refund of paid registration fees only if UMBC Training Centers receives a notice of cancellation at least 10 business days prior to the class start date for classes or the exam date for exams.