Architectural Overview and Building a Simple App in Angular

It doesn't matter if you are new to AngularJS or new to Angular. If you want to quickly develop great web apps with rich UIs and with the features of Angular components, templates, and services, you need to master Angular, and this book is for you.

Angular is a JavaScript framework that enables developers to build web and mobile applications. Applications built with Angular can target any device, such as mobiles, tablets, and desktops. Angular is not an incremental version of AngularJS. It was completely rewritten with improved Dependency Injection, dynamic loading, and simpler routing, and recommends that developers use TypeScript and leverage OOPS, static typing, generics, and lambdas.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Angular architecture
• Basics of TypeScript
• Building a simple application