A quick and concise guide to Angular 2 Components

About This Book

First look to the Angular 2 Components architecture

Creating your own Angular 2 Component

Integrating your components with third party components

Who This Book Is For

If you are a front-end developer with some experience in Angular and want to understand Angular 2 Components, and easily put it to use to create powerful user interfaces and views, then this book is for you

What You Will Learn

Break your application into reusable dynamic components

Take advantage of TypeScript in Angular 2

Migrate your Angular 1 directive to an Angular 2 Component

Understand the Angular 2 component structure and APIs

Hook to component life cycle events

Bind dynamic data to your component properties

Communicate with other components using events

Compose complicated UIs from simple components

In Detail

This book is a concise guide to Angular 2 Components and is based on the stable version of Angular 2. You will start with learning about the Angular 2 Components architecture and how components differ from Angular directives in Angular 1. You will then move on to quickly set up an Angular 2 development environment and grasp the basics of TypeScript. With this strong foundation in place, you will start building components.

The book will teach you, with an example, how to define component behavior, create component templates, and use the controller of your component. You will also learn how to make your components communicate with each other. Once you have built a component, you will learn how to extend it by integrating third-party components with it. By the end of the book, you will be confident with building and using components for your applications.

Style and approach

A step-by-step guide covering features and working of Angular 2 Components along with the process for creating your own components.