Chapter 6: A Practical Guide to Angular Directives
by Claudio Ribeiro
This article focuses on Angular directives — what are they, how to use them, and to build our own.
Directives are perhaps the most important bit of an Angular application, and if we think about it, the most-used Angular unit, the component, is actually a directive.
An Angular component isn’t more than a directive with a template. When we say that components are the building blocks of Angular applications, we’re actually saying that directives are the building blocks of Angular applications.
Basic overview
At the core, a directive is a function that executes whenever the Angular compiler finds it in the DOM. Angular directives are used to extend the power of the HTML by giving ...
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