Angular 17 Training Course

Introduction to Angular 17

• What is Angular?
• Comparing Angular with React and Vue
• Overview of Angular 17 features and architectural design
• Setting up the development environment

Getting Started

• Initializing a new Angular 17 project using Angular CLI
• Exploring the project structure and file organization
• Running and serving the application
• Displaying data using interpolation and expressions

Components

• Understanding the role of components in Angular 17
• Creating and implementing components
• Passing data between components using inputs and outputs
• Leveraging component lifecycle hooks

Directives

• Distinguishing between structural and attribute directives
• Implementing built-in directives such as ngIf, ngFor, and ngSwitch
• Creating and applying custom directives

Pipes

• Understanding the purpose of pipes in Angular 17
• Using built-in pipes like date, currency, and json
• Developing and applying custom pipes

Services

• Understanding the role of services in Angular 17
• Creating and utilizing services
• Injecting dependencies using providers

Modules

• Understanding the role of modules in Angular 17
• Creating and using modules
• Importing and exporting modules

Data Binding

• Distinguishing between one-way and two-way data binding
• Implementing property binding, event binding, and banana-in-a-box syntax
• Using template reference variables

Routing

• Understanding the role of routing in Angular 17
• Creating and configuring routes
• Navigating between routes using routerLink and router.navigate()
• Utilizing route parameters, query parameters, and fragments

Forms

• Distinguishing between template-driven and reactive forms
• Creating and validating forms using form controls, form groups, and form arrays
• Applying built-in validators such as required, minLength, and maxLength
• Creating and using custom validators

HTTP Client

• Understanding the role of the HTTP client in Angular 17
• Making HTTP requests to communicate with backend services
• Using observables to handle asynchronous data streams
• Applying interceptors to modify or handle HTTP requests and responses

New, Declarative Control Flow

• Explaining the new template control block syntax and how it simplifies tasks like conditional rendering, looping, and handling empty collections
• Providing examples of using new blocks, such as @if, @else, @switch, @case, @default, @for, and @empty
• Comparing the new syntax with previous directives like *ngIf, *ngSwitch, and *ngFor
• Mentioning how the new control blocks support zoneless applications with signals

Deferred Loading Blocks

• Explaining the concept of deferred loading and its impact on web application performance and user experience
• Introducing the @defer control block for lazy-loading content and dependencies
• Providing examples of using the @defer block for scenarios like loading components, directives, pipes, animations, and styles
• Mentioning how the @defer block integrates with the new view transitions API

View Transitions API

• Explaining the purpose and benefits of the view transitions API for customizing animations between views
• Introducing the withViewTransitions directive to enable the view transitions API
• Providing examples of using the withViewTransitions directive with transition types like fade, slide, zoom, and flip
• Mentioning how the view transitions API interacts with the Angular router and browser history

Other Features and Improvements

• Briefly summarizing other key features and improvements in Angular 17, including:
• Support for passing @Component.styles as a string
• Lazy-loadable animations code in Angular
• TypeScript 5.2 support
• Stable core signal API
• Removal of Node.js v16 support, with v18.13.0 as the minimum version
• Esbuild as the default builder and Vite as the default dev server