Nishu Goel - Step-by-Step Angular Routing

Building web applications has been done using HTML, JavaScript in the past a lot. When it comes to building large applications, libraries like Dojo, knockout etc. were used at a large scale. In 2009, the web developer community was taken by a storm when AngularJS was introduced. Misko Hevery and Adam Abronsbuilt it as a side project at Google and since then, this framework is not stopping to amaze people and help them build applications much faster and efficiently.

With the constant upgrades to this framework, it is growing more and more user-friendly and is now called Angular after the first version which was called AngularJS. From Angular 2 to the current version of Angular, the widely used name is just Angular irrespective of the version number.

At the time of writing this book, the version of Angular used is 7.3.7 and is very soon to be upgraded to Angular 8.

Some of the amazing features of Angular framework make it a widely-used framework for building single-page web applications. And one of the things that attracted me the most towards Angular framework was the so-simplified routing and navigation techniques in it and how it is so compatible with the Angular CLI (command-line interface).

And this was one of the driving factors for me to invest my time into writing this book about Angular Routing, having gathered some knowledge about how Routing works in Angular. I thought it would be a good idea to put together whatever I have learnt about routing in one place. The book has been put together trying to simplify all the concepts required to understand Angular Routing and at the same time, making sure that the reader grabs the most out of it and is able to code along his reading through the book.

The structure of this book is kept simple starting from the introduction of some of the basic concepts of Angular to get started, followed by the introduction to Angular Routing, basic set-up, concepts like guarding the routes, using parameters to route to different views, using lazy loading to improve the performance of the application etcet era.

I have tried my best to keep the language very simple to understand and used no heavy terms, in the hope of making this book an easy read for the audience and also a good read for the beginners in Angular.

The major motivation for me to write this book came from the person who has lived Angular for years and is the one who got me started in learning Angular right after my under-graduate studies. Mr. Dhananjay Kumar a.k.a DJ is the organiser of the Angular conference of India, ng-India and is a Developer Evangelist at Infragistics. He is the author of the book Angular Essentials. He has always been an inspiration whether it is his knowledge, hard-work, or the passion to teach people and help them grow.

Another one of the driving factors for me was my interest to write a book on a technical topic and after having learned some concepts of Angular with my major focus on Angular routing and having a clarity about Routing concepts, I decided to go for it.

The major learning sources for me in my journey of getting my basic concepts clear were DJ of course, the Pluralsight courses by Deborah Kurata, Software Developer, Pluralsight Author, and the official documentation of Angular, angular.io.

This book has a GitHub repository associated with it and the link to the repository is shared inside, because as we all have heard, the best way to learn something is by doing it.