Angular in Action

Friendly style. No need of previous knowledge of angular.HTML CSS and JS still required and is good to have some experience with Typescript and Boostrap.

Being career developer of Windows applications and light exposure to web development technologies I was pretty disappointed because I'd already picked up much via online tutorials and Pluralsight videos. I've learned that most technical books for developers are just not worth the high cost, and forty dollars is high imho. I would have returned but pretty sure I wrote in one or more pages. For newbies, it might be fine.

Angular in Action is a well-written and clear introduction to Angular that follows the "In Action" series way of structuring the book. Especially the examples used in the book were thorough. The author didn't shy away from having larger and more complex examples by already providing a lot of structure (but not explaining the additional structure in the book). Reading this book ought to give you a good start working on Angular applications.The book contains 11 chapters and roughly contains three parts. The first two chapters provide the introduction, chapters two to nine provide an overview of the different Angular aspects and the final two chapters provide some broader general topics.Chapter one provides a description of the Angular framework, key features it uses, and its history. Then chapter two is the deep dive in Angular and works through a whole Angular application (a stock trading application) but just explains everything shallowly. This gives the reader a quick overview but not enough depth yet to understand exactly why the code is the way it is.Chapter three to nine covers the different angular main topics: app, components, services, directives, pipes, routes, and forms. Each of the chapters uses an example but they do not all use the same example. The author provides examples where the code is available on GitHub and does not explain all the code, just lets you make changes to the parts that are relevant related to the topic. Unlike many technical books such as this one, the examples actually didn't feel too contrived and felt they tried to reproduce the real-life complexity.The last two chapters provide two separate broader topics: testing and production. I understand why testing is left to the end of the book but was also disappointed with that choice as it does give a bit of a wrong impression. On the other hand, Angular does have good testing support but it does require you to understand some of the other aspects. I'm glad that the book at least dedicates a chapter on the topic. The last chapter covers topics related to running Angular in production and how to optimize part of the application. The book contains a final appendix related to migrating from AngularJS to Angular.This book covered the topics I would have expected but exceeded my expectations for this kind of books mostly because I enjoyed the examples used. The author didn't shy away from larger examples than I had expected. All in all, I recommend the book for anyone who wants to learn about Angular.

Once again, I wish Amazon offered the ability to add a half star to its constellation of review stars. I consider this well-written book worthy of four and a half stars. I have been using Angular for a while without really understanding much of it. But Jeremy Wilken is very good at explaining things in "Angular in Action," and the annotated code examples are very helpful, too, while building and enhancing the book's stock tracker application. At the same time, I also agree with another reviewer that some coverage of webpack, even just a few paragraphs, could have reduced the need to put the book aside and wander off to a website for explanations. (Not that we don't already do that several times a day, of course.) The book's sole appendix deals honestly with the question of whether or not to upgrade from AngularJS (version 1.x) to Angular (version whatever it is these days). The choices, Wilken says, are (1) do nothing (and rely on AngularJS long-term support); (2) rewrite from scratch and avoid having to deal with legacy code; or (3) do an incremental upgrade, with the goal being to "slowly migrate the application piece by piece, so the existing application remains functional." This approach, of course, also has its downsides, including having to run AngularJS and Angular at the same time, and "[I]t's possible to get stuck in the upgrade process and never fully finish if you don't plan and execute correctly." Overall, I rate this book a definite keeper. "Angular in Action" is a strong, well-produced guide to learning Angular and putting it to productive work.(My thanks to Manning Books for providing an advance reading copy for review.)

This book is by far the best book in my angular book collection for introducing web developers to angular. It covers the most basics of angular in a very pleasant way. The explanations are followed by simple readable examples and very good illustrations. Thats the way I want to learn! A simple application example is build upon ng CLI. An example here to single out is - dynamic loading of components - using the ComponentFactoryResolver, which I remember was very hard to understand when I started out with angular 2 in 2016. Unfortunately, there is no chapter about webpack. As I have subscribed to the updates of this book at publisher, I was able to get a reasonable overview. Summerized this means, its a solid book If you want to get started with angular, but I dont see Angular in Action here. So Ill give it 4 stars.

Looking for the best book for learning Angular 2? This is it. Too many books on Angular 2 have you write a lot of code, launch the app, whoopee, it works. But you have no idea what the Angular 2 compiler is doing. This book TEACHES everything you need to know to LEARN Angular 2 (or is it 5 or 6, who knows? Google can't make up its mind). You will learn the Angular 2 Whys and Wherefores in this book.

This book contains fundamental information about angular which useful for both beginner and advance Angular developer. It's concept can apply for every version of Angular 2+

I bought a few Angular books, and found this one to be particularly bad from teaching perspective.There is very little explanation of concepts and high level overview of the framework. Everything is explained as they build an app, and feels rushed and not thoroughly designed. Feels like written by (and for) somebody coming from web design background, not software development background. Alternative book, that I like the style of, is being published by Manning: Angular development with Typescript. That book, while not perfect, has a better teaching approach: high level understanding first, and going into details later. Personally, I like that much better.

Muy recomendado. Lo compré para reforzar mis conocimientos en Angular y estoy muy satisfecho, el libro explica muy bien conceptos con ejemplos siempre y palabras fáciles de entender para alguien que no habla Inglés nativo.

Il libro (in lingua inglese) è comprensibile ed affronta nel dettaglio i diversi aspetti di Angular. Ho apprezzato il tono ironico non sempre presente nei manuali di informatica.