Introducing Angular

Angular represents a full rewrite of the AngularJS framework, introducing a brand-new application architecture built entirely from scratch in TypeScript, a strict superset of JavaScript that adds optional static typing and support for interfaces and decorators.

In a nutshell, Angular applications are based on an architecture design that comprises trees of web components interconnected by their particular I/O interface. Under the hood, each component takes advantage of a completely revamped dependency injection mechanism.

To be fair, this is a simplistic description of what Angular really is; however, the simplest project ever made in Angular is formed by these definition traits. We will focus on learning how to build interoperable components and manage dependency injection in the following chapters before moving on to more advanced topics, such as routing, web forms, and HTTP communication. We will not make explicit references to AngularJS throughout the book; it makes no sense to waste time and pages referring to something that does not provide any useful insights on the topic. Besides, we assume that you might not know about Angular 1.x, so such knowledge does not have any value here.