What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting Up Your Development Environment, goes over a scriptable way to set up your environment.

Chapter 2, Create a Local Weather Web Application, introduces the Kanban method of software development with easy-to-use design tools used to communicate ideas. It also covers Angular fundamentals, unit testing, and leveraging CLI tools to maximize your impact.

Chapter 3, Prepare Angular App for Production Release, covers how to troubleshoot your Angular app, and using containerization with Docker to enable cloud deployments.

Chapter 4, Staying Up to Date with Angular Updates, goes over strategies and the reasons for keeping your development tools and environment up to date.

Chapter 5, Enhance Angular App with Angular Material, introduces you to Angular material and explains how to use it to build great-looking apps.

Chapter 6, Reactive Forms and Component Interaction,  teaches you to become comfortable using Angular forms and reactive programming using RxJS.

Chapter 7, Create a Router-First Line-of-Business App, focuses on the Router-first architecture, a seven-step approach to the design and development of mid-to-large applications.

Chapter 8, Continuous Integration and API Design, goes over continuous integration using CircleCI and early integration with backend APIs using Swagger.

Chapter 9, Design Authentication and Authorization, pes into authentication- and authorization-related patterns in Angular and RESTful applications.

Chapter 10, Angular App Design and Recipes, contains recipes commonly needed for line-of-business applications.

Chapter 11, Highly-Available Cloud Infrastructure on AWS, moves beyond application features to go over provisioning a highly-available cloud infrastructure on AWS.

Chapter 12, Google Analytics and Advanced Cloud Ops, goes over the nuances of owning, operating, and optimizing your cloud infrastructure, and using Google Analytics to capture user behavior.