Angular is a framework which helps to develop Single Page Apps (SPA) which is how many of the modern websites are developed. This is in contrast to multi-page websites which were popular earlier. The advantage with SPA is that the websites are much more fast and responsive and improve the user experience for the users.
Learning Angular involves a steep learning curve. The aim of this post is to help beginners understand the basics of Angular and how to get started with Angular for web development.
The learner is expected to have basic web development skills and be comfortable with HTML, CSS and programming concepts. For developing Angular applications, you can either choose TypeScript or JavaScript (ES6 and above). Most developers choose TypeScript.
TypeScript is a super-set of JavaScript and introduces features such as type-safety, classes, interfaces, inheritance, etc. to the language which helps to improve the productivity of the developer and also reduce run-time errors. TypeScript however needs to be compiled to JavaScript as the browser doesn't understand TypeScript syntax, at the time of writing this post.
Angular applications are built using a component-oriented approach. The easiest way to understand this is to visualize how kids (and adults, too) use lego blocks to build various structures. Similarly, Angular provides the ability to build complex websites using smaller components. Each component consists of a TypeScript file (which has the logic), a HTML file (which has the markup) and a CSS file (which provides the styles for the component).
Apart from components, Angular provides a number of other features such as data binding, services, pipes, routing, reactive and template forms, etc.
For beginners, we are organizing a FREE 2-hour Angular bootcamp on October 26, 2020 from 11:00 AM IST to 01:00 PM IST which will throw more light on these areas.
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