Angular Crash Course

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/angular-crash-course/

Introduction to Angular

• weight tracking app tutorial
• https://github.com/joeeames/PSAngularCrashCourse

What You Need To Know About TypeScript to Work With Angular

• TypeScript is a JavaScript transpiler
• Provides good auto-complete help
• It's a way to add types to JavaScript - e.g. variables, parameters and function return types
• Generics - specifies a sub-type
• Decorators - this is a JavaScript concept rather than a TypeScript one. understand it's syntax and usage.

The Angular CLI

Some core features:

• create a new project / upgrade to a new version of Angular
• `npm i @angular/cli -g'
• ng new myproj1 - new project
• ng generate component community/CommunityHelper / ng g c community/CommunityHelper - create Angular objects

Angular Building Blocks

Components

Modules

• the entry point for the Angular compiler and process - angular.json "main"
• the module specifies the component to start with in bootstrap decorator property

Services

• create models in 'app\model` e.g. entry.ts
• a model is a class that is exported
• npm start compiles a project