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how to rapidly prototype SEO-friendly web applications with Angular Universal

Key Features

Rapidly build an application that's optimized for search performance

Develop service workers to make your application truly progressive

Automatically update metadata and load in content from external APIs

Book Description

Equip yourself with the skills required to create modern, progressive web applications that load quickly and efficiently. This fast-paced guide to server-side Angular leads you through an example application that uses Angular Universal to render application pages on the server, rather than the client.

You'll learn how to serve your users views that load instantly, while reaping all the SEO benefits of improved page indexing. With differences of just 200 milliseconds in performance having a measurable impact on your users, it's more important than ever to get server-side right.

What you will learn

Use the official tools provided by Angular to build an SEO-friendly application

Create a dynamic web application that maps to current Angular best practices

Manage your Angular applications with Angular CLI

Implement server-side rendering for your future web application projects

Configure service workers to automatically update your application in the background

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for experienced front-end developers who are looking to quickly work through an intelligent example that demonstrates all the key features of server-side development with Angular. You'll need some prior exposure to Angular, as we skim over the basics and get straight to work.