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Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy

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A practical guide to building faster and more testable Angular apps with the new Ivy engine

What is this book about?

Angular Ivy is the latest rendering engine and compiler introduced in Angular. Ivy helps frontend developers to make their Angular applications faster, better optimized, and more robust. This easy-to-follow guide will help you get to grips with the new features of Angular Ivy and show you how to migrate your Angular apps from View Engine to Ivy.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Find out why Angular Ivy tests are faster and more robust
• Explore the concept of CSS custom properties and scoping of values and learn how to use them with Angular Ivy
• Use testing harnesses present in Angular components to write effective tests
• Explore the architecture of the Angular compatibility compiler and understand why it is important
• Discover effective techniques for migrating your existing Angular apps to the Ivy engine

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter01.

The code will look like the following:

function changeSettings(settings: {
  sleepTimer: number;
  volume: number;
}): void {
  const volumeSetting = settings.volume ?? 0.5;
  sendVolumeSignal(volumeSetting);
  
  const sleepTimerSetting = settings.sleepTimer ?? 900;
  sendSleepTimerSignal(sleepTimerSetting);
}

The following is what you need for this book:

This book is for experienced Angular web developers who want to migrate to the latest Ivy engine for building faster web applications. Intermediate knowledge of Angular and TypeScript will help you get the most out of this book.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).

Software and Hardware List

Make sure to install a recent version of Angular CLI globally.

Part 1: A quick and functional guide to Angular Ivy

Chapter 1: Discovering new APIs and language syntax

Feature app: Globalization

Chapter 2: Boosting developer productivity through tooling, configuration and convenience

Feature app: Inheritance

Feature app: Style bindings

Chapter 3: Introducing CSS Custom Properties and new provider scopes

Feature app: Any provider scope

Feature app: Colored panels

Feature app: CSS Custom Properties

Feature app: Welcome

Chapter 4: Exploring Angular Components features

Feature app: Map

Feature app: Video

Part 2: Build a real world application with the Angular Ivy features you learned

Real world app: Angular Academy

Part 3: Upgrade your View Engine application and development workflow to Angular Ivy

Chapter 9: Debugging with the new Ivy runtime APIs

Feature app: Random number

Chapter 12: Embracing Ahead-of-Time compilation

Feature app: Feature flag initializer

Feature app: Feature flags

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

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• Angular Cookbook [Packt] [Amazon]

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Get to Know the Authors

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen is a frontend architect at Systemate A/S in Denmark. As a cofounder of the open learning non-profit This is Learning, he creates open platforms for free knowledge and public learning. Lars is a tech writer, international tech speaker, FOSS maintainer, Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, and GitHub Star.

Jacob Andresen works as a senior software developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been working as a software developer and consultant in information retrieval systems and web applications since 2002.