Chapter 6: Enrich Components with Asynchronous Data Services

Connecting to data services and APIs and handling asynchronous information is a common task in our everyday lives as developers. In this sense, Angular provides an unparalleled toolset to help us when it comes to consuming, digesting, and transforming all kinds of information fetched from data services. Observable streams and HTTP data access are at the forefront of this toolset, giving developers a rich set of capabilities when creating Angular apps.

There are many possibilities to describe what you can do to connect to APIs through HTTP or to consume information from the filesystem asynchronously. In this book, we will only scratch the surface. Still, the insights covered in this ...

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