Preface

AngularJS is a JavaScript development framework that makes building web applications easier. It is used today in millions of high-traffic web applications. Although, AngularJS served its purpose well over the past years web evolved and now the framework struggles with performance and scalability issues.

In 2016, Google released Angular—a new framework for building scalable, performant application, inspired by AngularJS. This book allows you to align your work to the stable APIs of Angular, version 5 and beyond, with Angular expert Minko Gechev. With Switching to Angular, Third Edition, we will go through a journey that will help us utilize Google's long term vision for Angular in our future development. This books provides a detailed insight and knowledge to give us the clarity we need to confidently switch into the stable APIs of the framework.

By the end of the book, you'll be able to align with Google's vision for Angular version 5 and beyond, with confidence. But primarily, you will learn how to build high-performance, scalable, and SEO-friendly enterprise applications with Angular and TypeScript.