Angular Training Overview
Take your skills to the next level with Accelebrate's Advanced Angular training. Students gain an understanding of application architecture and design best practices in Angular, as well as learn how to authenticate, unit test, and manage application state in an Angular application.
Note: This course is taught in the current version of Angular at the time of teaching.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
Prerequisites
Students should have taken Accelebrate's Introduction to Angular class or have the equivalent experience.
Outline
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Introduction
RxJS and Observables
- What is an Observable?
- Creating Observables
- What is an Observer?
- Observer Example
- Operators: map, switchMap, debounceTime, distinctUntilChanged
- Practical Application of using RxJS
- Subscriptions
- Unsubscribing from Observables in Angular (unsubscribe, Async Pipe, takeUntil)
- Subject
- Subject Example
- Subject Variants (AsyncSubject,BehaviorSubject, ReplaySubject)
- EventEmitter or Observable
- RxJS Operators and HTTP
Unit Testing
- Tools: Jasmine, Karma
- Jasmine Syntax: describe, it, beforeEach, afterEach,matchers
- Setup and your First Test
- Testing Terminology: Mock, Stub, Spy, Fakes
- Angular Testing Terminology: TestBed, ComponentFixture, debugElement, async, fakeAsync, tick, inject
- Simple Component Test
- Detecting Component Changes
- Testing a Component with properties (inputs) and events (outputs)
- Testing a Component that uses the Router
- Testing a Component that depends on a Service
- Testing a Service and Mocking its HTTP requests
Security
- Best Practices
- Preventing Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
- Trusting values with the DOMSanitizer
- HTTP Attacks (CSRF and CSSI)
- Authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
- Authorization: Router Guards
Change Detection
- Understanding Zone.js and Change Detection
- Change Detection Strategies Default and OnPush
Advanced Routing
- Lazy-loading Angular Modules (using Dynamic Imports)
- Nested or Child Routes
Advanced Dependency Injection
- Providers
- Hierarchical Injection
- providedIn options: root, module, platform, any
Pipes
- Creating a custom Pipe using PipeTransform
- Understanding Pure and Impure Pipes
Conclusion
Choose any two additional topics. If desired, the course can be customized to include more than two of these topics if other topics are scaled back or removed.
- npm QuickStart
- Installing Dependencies
- Understanding package.json and package-lock.json
- Using npm as a Build Tool
- Managing Shared Application State using ngrx and Redux
- Benefits Overview
- Three Principles of Redux: Single Source of Truth, State is Read-Only, Pure Functions
- Examples of Pure Functions
- Reducers
- Simple ngrx Example
- Time-traveling with Redux Devtools
- Full ngrx Example Application
- Upgrade Strategies from AngularJS
- High-level Approaches
- Concept Mapping AngularJS to Angular
- UpgradeAdapter
- What can be Upgraded or Downgraded
- What cannot be Upgraded or Downgraded
- UpgradeAdapter and Dependency Injection
- End-to-End Testing
- What is Protractor?
- Why Protractor?
- Using Locators
- Page Objects
- Debugging E2E Tests
Training Materials
All Angular training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Google Chrome
- Other modern browsers as desired
- IDE/development environment of your choice
- Other free software and lab files that Accelebrate would specify
Here's a sample Angular lesson demonstrating how to use an Injection Token to inject services coded to an interface. You may also download the code and demos shown in the video.
See other Angular topics in our video series, 5-minute Angular Tips.
