Getting Started with Angular: Top 12 Tutorials for Beginners

Angular is a UI framework for building mobile and desktop web applications. It is built using TypeScript and can support single-developer projects to enterprise-level applications. You can create amazing client-side applications using HTML, CSS, and Typescript using Angular. At Stream, we use it to build chat applications and more.

Interested in joining the ranks of over 1.7 million developers, library authors, and content creators who rely on Angular?

We’ve made it easy to get started. Whether you’ve been searching for a comprehensive resource to bookmark in your browser or need a visual aid of the framework, we’ve rounded up the top 12 beginner-friendly tutorials to cover the basics and help you launch your app faster.

Best Overall Angular Tutorials for Beginners

Diving into a new framework can be an overwhelming experience for first-time developers. Fortunately, there are plenty of resources to help future Angular devs lay a solid foundation to build upon.

For now, let’s start with the basics. The Angular development platform includes:

• A component-based framework to build and support scalable web applications
• Built-in high-level support for common features like forms, HTTP requests, routing, and animations
• A suite of developer tools to help develop, build, test, and update code

If you’re ready for more, check out the tutorials below. You’ll notice that one is in a text-based format, while the other is a video – options we will continue to provide throughout the article to accommodate all learning styles.

You’ll want to bookmark this one: Getting Started with Angular

Our pick for visual learners: Angular Tutorial for Beginners - Web Framework with Typescript Course

Best Tutorials for Angular Mobile App Development

Angular is typically used for web application development, but when used in conjunction with Ionic, developers can easily create high-performing mobile apps for any platform or device. The Ionic Framework is open-sourced and features a rich library of front-end building blocks, integrations, and UI components that make it easy to develop mobile apps using web HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

If you want to build your first mobile app with Angular, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with Ionic, too. Take a look at the two resources below to better understand how to combine these two frameworks for maximum results.

You’ll want to bookmark this one: Your First Ionic Mobile App: Angular

Our pick for visual learners: How to Create Your First Mobile App Using Ionic Angular

Best Angular First-Party Library Tutorials

Angular’s first-party libraries enable users to effortlessly expand the functionality of their app and spend more time focusing on what makes their app unique. The features in the library integrate and update simultaneously alongside the rest of the Angular framework. They are also completely optional – incorporate them into your app only if and when they can help you add functionality or solve a particular problem.

Angular’s forms, animation, routing, and navigation features within its first-party libraries are essential for every beginner to know. However, the need for these libraries typically becomes more apparent as applications grow, receive feedback, and feel the need to place a greater emphasis on UX – you can dive deeper into each of the Angular libraries after you familiarize yourself with the basics of Angular.

Angular Forms

Fully functioning forms are at the heart of every great app’s user experience. With Angular, you can create forms that allow your users to log in, update their profiles, enter sensitive information, and submit feedback. Angular features two styles of forms: reactive and template-driven. Both capture user input events, validate them, create a form and data model to update, and provide a way to track changes.

Explore the tutorials below to learn how to create your first form within Angular.

You’ll want to bookmark this one: Angular Forms Guide - Template Driven & Reactive Forms

Our pick for visual learners: Reactive Forms - The Basics

Angular Animation

With animation, you can create the illusion of motion within your app. Thoughtfully curated animations influence web and mobile apps' aesthetic design and overall flow. Web page transitions can seem abrupt and jarring without animations, and you lose out on the ability to draw the user’s eye to specific areas of the screen.

Angular's animation system relies on CSS functionality, which means you can animate any property that the browser considers animatable – including positions, sizes, transforms, colors, borders, and other aspects of your design.

To begin animating your Angular application, check out our top tutorial picks below.

You’ll want to bookmark this one: Introduction to Angular Animations

Our pick for visual learners: Angular Video Series Part 24 || Angular Animations

Angular Routing & Navigation

Angular provides extensive navigation features to accommodate every scenario from simple to complex. Defining the navigation element and its corresponding view is called Routing. The Angular router is a core part of the Angular platform. It enables developers to build [Single Page Applications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application#:~:text=A%20single%2Dpage%20application%20(SPA,browser%20loading%20entire%20new%20pages.) with multiple views and allows users to navigate between them.

To begin implementing this key feature of your web or mobile application, we suggest reviewing the tutorials below for a step-by-step walkthrough.

You’ll want to bookmark this one: Angular Routing

Our pick for visual learners: Angular Video Series Part 18 || Routing in Angular

Best Angular Material Tutorials

Material

Angular Material is Angular’s Official Component Library. Based on Google’s Material Design, Angular Material is both a UI Component framework and reference implementation.

Material aims to unify the user experience on the web, mobile, and tablet devices with modern UI components, like:

• Form Controls: AutoComplete, Checkbox, Datepicker, Form field, Input, Radio button, Select, Slider, and Toggle
• Navigation: Menu, Side Navigation, and ToolBar
• Layout Components: Card, Divider, Expansion Panel, Grid List, List, Stepper, Tabs
• Pop-Ups: Dialog, Snackbar, Tooltip

Review the tutorials below to experience all of these UI components and more.

You’ll want to bookmark this one: Getting Started with Angular Material

Our pick for visual learners: Learn Angular Material

Ready to Get Started with Angular?

Angular is a large and comprehensive framework that is constantly evolving. So, we recommend that beginners start by familiarizing themselves with the concepts covered in the handpicked tutorials above. By taking a holistic approach to learning Angular, beginners can navigate the framework on a basic level and build upon their strong foundational knowledge without wasting any time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the difference between angular and AngularJS?

A. Angular and AngularJS are both open-source web application frameworks developed by Google. AngularJS is the predecessor of Angular, but they are two separate frameworks. AngularJS is currently in long-term support mode; meanwhile, Angular is actively developed.

Q. How do Angular forms work?

A. Angular forms provide a high-level API for creating user-friendly forms with client-side validations and custom input types. Angular has two kinds of forms: template-driven and reactive. The logical model is the same for both types; Angular suggests using template-driven forms only for basic use-cases, like as a log-in screen.

Q. What is the difference between Angular vs. React?

A. Angular and React are both open-source, component-based web application frameworks. They can be used to build complex and performant web applications. Angular and React both have differences and similarities but choosing between the two comes down to developer preference.

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