Mastering Angular Developer Boot Camp

Geared for experienced web developers, our Mastering Angular 20 Boot Camp is a five-day, comprehensive hands-on program that explores the latest features and benefits Angular has to offer. Throughout the course you’ll learn the practical “real-world” foundational and advanced Angular skills required to solve the usual challenges you might face when developing modern web applications with JavaScript.
Kicking off with an in-depth introduction to Angular CLI and TypeScript, the course propels you into the world of component-driven development, touching on vital topics like data-binding, directives, and services. As you advance through the curriculum, you’ll explore SPA routing, the RxJS library, forms, and unit testing, along with HTTP/REST protocols for server interaction.

Audience Profile

The content is appropriate for experienced web developers new to Angular.

At Course Completion

By the end of this course, youll have built a comprehensive application that brings together all these elements: website structuring through components, dynamic interactivity via directives, and custom pipes for content refinement. You’ll know how to employ reactive forms for active user engagement and SPA routing for fluid navigation, fortified by efficient data management through services. All of this is underscored by a strong emphasis on unit testing, as well as practical REST API interactions for modern server communication.
You will leave the course equipped to construct robust, scalable, and feature-rich web applications using Angular 18, able to implement seamless user experiences, integrate with various data sources through REST APIs, and employ best practices in unit testing for sustainable, high-quality code.

The lab intensive course includes plenty of hands-on lab work designed to immerse you in the skills required to get you up and running with Angular right away. The course is rich with hands-on activities, challenge labs, knowledge checks, valuable discussions and focused projects.

You will learn how to:

Build Powerful Components: Master creating and organizing Angular components, leveraging dependency injection and lifecycle hooks for scalable apps.
Harness TypeScript’s Power: Become proficient in TypeScript, using its advanced features like classes, interfaces, and decorators to supercharge your Angular development.
Create Dynamic, Reactive Forms: Learn to build complex forms with Angular’s reactive approach, ensuring seamless validation and user interaction.
Connect with RESTful Services: Integrate Angular apps with RESTful services using HttpClient, and handle asynchronous data streams with RxJS for efficient server communication.
Optimize with CLI and DevTools: Use Angular CLI for easy project setup and deployment, and harness DevTools for debugging and optimizing your applications.
Master SPA Navigation: Implement smooth and efficient Single Page Application (SPA) routing with nested routes and route guards for a top-notch user experience.
Utilize Third-Party Libraries: Learn to effectively integrate and manage third-party libraries within Angular to extend functionality and streamline development.
Implement Effective Testing: Gain skills in using tools like Jest and Web Test Runner for unit testing, ensuring your Angular applications are robust and error-free.
If your team requires different topics, additional skills or a custom approach, our team will collaborate with you to adjust the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Prerequisites

In order to be successful in the course, you should have solid, current hands-on experience developing basic web applications, and be well versed in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

Outline

1. Overview of Angular Architecture

Angular Versioning
Data Binding
Component Architecture
o Show concepts: how to render the content in the browser
Components and Dependency Injection
Services and Events
Common Component Lifecycles and Hooks

2. TypeScript

Angular, ES6 and TypeScript
Typing and Classes
Abstract Classes and Interfaces
Interface patterns
Annotations
Generics
Optional Chaining
Nullish coalescing
Decorators
Functional vs Procedural JavaScript
Functional Approach
Lab: Quick Hands-on TypeScript

3. Bootstrapping with Angular CLI

Angular CLI Overview
New Projects with CLI
Testing and Generating with CLI

4. Angular Basics

Configuration Files
Working with angular.json
Top-Level Directories
Contents of app folder
Angular DevTools
ng build
Lab: Creating Projects with Angular CLI
Working with Angular

5. Components and Events

Data Binding and Components
Event Binding
Custom Events
Parent/Child Events
EventEmitter/emit()
New Input/Output function
Lab: Nested Components

6. Standalone Components

Project Setup and Configuration
Folder Structure
Components
Services
Routing
Versus non-standalone components (overview)
Versus modules (overview)

7. Third Party Libraries

Angular and the Need for Libraries
Options for adding Libraries
Working with npm install
Lab: Third-Party Libraries

8. Dynamic Views – Directives

View Encapsulation
Structural/Attribute Directives
Conditional Styling
@if/@else
@for
@defer
Lab: Working with Directives and control flow blocks

9. Pipes

Overview of Pipes
Built-in Pipes
Formatting and Conversions
Parameterizing Pipes
Pure vs. Impure Pipes
Customizing Pipes
Lab: Built-in and Custom Pipes

10. Signals and State

What are Signals?
How to read the value of a signal?
How to modify the value of a signal?
The update signal API
Read-only signals
The computed() Signal API
How do we subscribe to a signal?
Using effects
Lab: Signals
Angular Forms

11. Forms and the Forms API focus on Reactive

Forms
Template Forms Overview
User Input/Interactions
Model-Driven Reactive Forms
FormBuilder API
Reactive Form Validation
Forms new control state change events
Lab: Reactive Forms
Single Page Applications and Routes

12. SPA – Routing

Overview of the SPA Concept
Routing for Page Display
Working with ActivatedRoute
Location Strategies
Nested Routes
Route redirects as functions
Lab: Routing

13. Services (Dependency Injection)

Angulars DI Framework
Components and Injectables
Tree-shakeable providers
Services Architecture
Service Interfaces and DI
Constructor Injection
Inject function
Scenarios for use
Helper Services
Fascade Services
Lab: Services

14. Modules

Overview of Modules
Feature Modules
Feature Module Routing
Shared Modules
Lab: Modules
Using RESTful Services

15. Angular and REST

REST in Angular
Promises, Observables, Subject
HttpClient and Observables
Deprecation of HttpClientModule
Async Pipes and HttpClient Interceptors
Angular working with axios
Lab: Rest with axios
15a. Standalone Components vs Modules
Review of Standalone components
A non-standalone component
Using standard directives in standalone components
practical benefits of standalone components
Using standalone components in NgModule-based components
Using feature NgModule-based components in standalone components
Lazy loading with standalone components
3 steps to migrating to standalone components
Lab: Using Standalone components alongside modules
Using RESTful Services

16. Angular and REST

REST in Angular
Promises, Observables, Subject
HttpClient and Observables
Deprecation of HttpClientModule
Async Pipes and HttpClient Interceptors
Angular working with axios
Lab: Rest with axios
Reactive Programming in Angular

17. Working with RxJS

Working with RxJS in Angular
RxJS Operators
o switchMap, tap, map, forkJoin, combineLatest, …
o Most used operators
Asynchronous operations
Manipulate stream
Enhanced Lab: Working with RxJS

18. Testing and Angular

Testing Dependencies
Options for Testing in Angular
Using Jest in Angular
Using the Web Test Runner
Enhanced Lab: Unit Testing
Bonus Content / Time Permitting

19. Zoneless

The Need for Zoneless Angular
o Performance considerations
Zone Change Detection
Advantages and Trade-offs
Errors, Debugging and Standalone

20. Angular Error Handling and Debugging

With Chrome DevTools
With VS Code
Http client request errors
Lab: Debugging Angular

21. Angular coding style guide and Best Practices

Angular 16 to Angular 20 Upgrade (Optional)