Shyam Seshadri - Angular: Up and Running: Learning Angular, Step by Step

By Shyam Seshadri

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Its funny that we constantly over- or underestimate the impact of certain events and projects in our lives. I seriously believed that the last project I worked on at Google, Google Feedback, would end up completely changing how the company interacted with its customers. And I believed Angular (AngularJS at the time) would just be another flash-in-the-pan, yet-another-framework that would not outlive the Feedback projects admin interface.

And in hindsight, it was exactly the other way around. While Feedback still exists and is baked into a lot of Google products, it is Angular that has gone from a tiny project used by one internal team at Angular to now being used by thousands of developers and companies worldwide. And a lot of it stems from Misko, Igor, and the entire team around it, and their unerring dedication to improving how we develop web applications.

What started off as a two-member project is now one of the largest open source communities on the web, and the framework has impacted and been a part of thousands of projects across the world. There are dozens of books, hundreds of tutorials, and thousands of articles on Angular, and Angulars adoption and support continues to grow each day.

Some of the major concepts that were ahead of their time during the first version of Angular (like data binding, separation of concerns, dependency injection, etc.) are now common features of new frameworks.

The biggest change to the AngularJS ecosystem has been the release of the new version of Angular (initially called Angular 2.0, now just called Angular). It was a drastic, non-backward-compatible change that almost divided an entire community. But with community engagement and an open, inclusive team, what could have been a disastrous step turned out to be a much needed overhaul of Angular to bring it to the new age of web development.

Truly, what makes Angular a great technology and framework is the community around itthose who contribute to the core framework, or develop plug-ins for it, as well as those who use it on a day-to-day basis.

As part of the community, I am truly excited to present this book, and contribute in my own way to what makes this community great.