Angular 17 Training Course

Introduction to Angular 17

• Defining Angular and its role in modern development.
• Comparing Angular with React and Vue.
• Overview of Angular 17's key features and architecture.
• Setting up the development environment.

Getting Started

• Initializing a new Angular 17 project with Angular CLI.
• Examining the project structure and file organization.
• Running and serving the application.
• Displaying data through interpolation and expressions.

Components

• The role of components within the Angular 17 ecosystem.
• Creating and utilizing components.
• Data exchange between components via inputs and outputs.
• Leveraging component lifecycle hooks.

Directives

• Distinguishing between structural and attribute directives.
• Using built-in directives like ngIf, ngFor, and ngSwitch.
• Developing and applying custom directives.

Pipes

• The purpose and utility of pipes in Angular 17.
• Using built-in pipes for dates, currency, JSON, and more.
• Crafting and implementing custom pipes.

Services

• The function of services in the Angular 17 framework.
• Creating and using services.
• Dependency injection through providers.

Modules

• The significance of modules in Angular 17.
• Creating and utilizing modules.
• Managing imports and exports.

Data Binding

• Differentiating between one-way and two-way data binding.
• Implementing property binding, event binding, and the banana-in-a-box syntax.
• Utilizing template reference variables.

Routing

• The importance of routing in Angular 17.
• Configuring and creating routes.
• Navigation via routerLink and router.navigate().
• Managing route parameters, query parameters, and fragments.

Forms

• Comparing template-driven and reactive forms.
• Building and validating forms with controls, groups, and arrays.
• Applying built-in validators like required, minLength, and maxLength.
• Developing and using custom validators.

HTTP Client

• The role of the HTTP client in Angular 17.
• Making HTTP requests to interact with backend services.
• Managing asynchronous data streams with observables.
• Modifying or handling requests/responses using interceptors.

New, Declarative Control Flow

• How the new template control block syntax simplifies conditional rendering, looping, and empty collection handling.
• Examples using new blocks such as @if, @else, @switch, @case, @default, @for, and @empty.
• Comparison with legacy syntax like *ngIf, *ngSwitch, and *ngFor.
• Support for zoneless applications utilizing signals.

Deferred Loading Blocks

• The concept of deferred loading and its impact on performance and user experience.
• Introduction to the @defer block for lazy-loading content and dependencies.
• Practical examples of using @defer for components, directives, pipes, animations, and styles.
• Integration with the new view transitions API.

View Transitions API

• Benefits of the view transitions API for customizing view animations.
• Using the withViewTransitions directive to enable these features.
• Examples with transition types like fade, slide, zoom, and flip.
• Interaction between the API, the Angular router, and browser history.

Other Features and Improvements

• Summary of additional enhancements in Angular 17, including:
• Ability to pass @Component.styles as a string.
• Lazy-loading capability for Angular animations code.
• Support for TypeScript 5.2.
• Stabilization of the core signal API.
• Removal of Node.js v16 support, with v18.13.0 becoming the minimum requirement.
• Esbuild becoming the default builder and Vite powering the default dev server.