June 2018
Beginner
309 pages
7h 28m
English
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Chapter 1. Introducing Angular
Our expectations of what we can perform on the web (and by web here, I mean both desktop as well as the mobile web) has increased to the point where what used to be full-fledged native desktop applications are run on the browser. Web applications now resemble desktop native applications in scope and complexity, which also results in added complexity as a developer.
Furthermore, Single-Page Applications (SPAs) have become a very common choice in building out frontend experiences, as they allow for great customer experiences in terms of speed and responsiveness. Once the initial application has loaded into a customer’s browser, further interactions only have to worry about loading the additional data needed, without reloading the entire page as was the norm with server-side rendered pages of the past.
AngularJS was started to first bring structure and consistency to single-page web application development, while providing a way to quickly develop scalable and maintainable web applications. In the time since it was released, the web and browsers have moved forward by leaps and bounds, and some of the problems that AngularJS was solving weren’t as relevant anymore.
Angular then was basically a completely new rewritten version of the framework, built for the new-age web. It leveraged a lot of the newer advances, from modules to web components, while improving the existing features of AngularJS, like dependency injection and templating.
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