Pro Angular 16

12 Using the built-in directives

This chapter covers

• Using the ngIf and ngSwitch directives to selectively include elements
• Using the ngFor directive to generate content for each element in a sequence
• Using micro-templates to repeat content
• Understanding the restrictions Angular places on data binding expressions

In this chapter, I describe the built-in directives that are responsible for some of the most commonly required functionality for creating web applications: selectively including content, choosing between different fragments of content, and repeating content. I also describe some limitations that Angular puts on the expressions that are used for one-way data bindings and the directives that provide them. Table 12.1 puts the built-in ...