Category Archives: AngularJS
Angular 2 – Add Row Code Sample
This article represents concepts and code sample around how to add a row in a tabular dataset in Angular 2 apps. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed mentioning one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: Add Row – Concepts Add Row – Code Sample Add Row – Concepts Following are some of the key points to be noted in relation to adding a row in an Angular 2 app. Define a component, AddRowComponent, and bootstrap this component. Take a look at the code below on how to bootstrap the component. Define a selector add-rows with …
Angular 2 – Two Ways to Initialize Component Properties
This article represents two different ways in which Angular 2 components properties can be initialized. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are two different ways to initialize the component properties. In the example below, component’s property is initialize through variable assignment. Take a look at the code “name = ‘Calvin Hobbes’”. This approach is sometimes preferable because it makes code easy to read and also, there will be lesser code to write. import {Component, View} from ‘angular2/core’; @Component({ selector: ‘user’ }) @View({ template: ‘{{name}}’ }) export class UserComponent { name = ‘Calvin Hobbes’; } In the …
Angular 2 – Two Ways to Pass Data to Components
This article represents concepts and code samples in relation to how one could pass data from one component to another in an Angular app. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed mentioning one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. As Angular is primarily based on components and components interaction, it is important to understand how data is passed from one component to another. Data is passed between the component using property bindings. Take a look at the syntax below: In above syntax, user component’s property “value” is bound to “user” property of the parent component. The data type of the bound property needs to be matched. Thus, if …
Angular 2 – Parent-Child Components Explained with Code Examples
This article represents concepts and code examples for creating parent-child components. Following image represents the view which is referred in the code samples below. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following is explained later in this blog. A parent component, HelloWorld and the interaction with Child Component, UserComponent A child component, UserComponent An interface User Parent Component, HelloWorld, interaction with Child Component, UserComponent A parent component, HelloWorld, represents the view consisting of Hello message and a textfield for user to interact with the view. The Hello message looks like <h1>Hello, <user [value]=”user”></user>&t;/h1>. Notice that the …
Angular 2 – Data Binding to Accommodate Component Relationships
This article represents concepts and related code samples in relation with data binding in Angular 2 vis-a-vis component relationships. Those with prior experience of ReactJS which propagates one-way binding would find it easy to understand and consume. 🙂 AngularJS 1 bragged about the two-way data binding very much. However, Angular 2 decided to promote one-way data binding (as like ReactJS) and, two-way data binding is considered only as a special case. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: Two-way Data Binding in AngularJS 1 Data Binding in …
5 Reasons Angular 2 Hello World is Trickier than AngularJS 1 Hello World
This article represents my thoughts on why Angular 2 apps is trickier to write than AngularJS 1 apps. I have represented the Hello World code to demonstrate the same. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key reasons: Components Vs Controllers: In Angular 2 Apps, what is key is Components associated with a View. These components have got a selector, a View and a set of properties and methods encapsulated within a Class. In AngularJS 1, it was all about Controllers having logic to interact with View. It was very easy to bootstrap AngularJS …
Angular 2 – Set up TypeScript Dev Environment for Angular 2 Apps
This article represents steps and code snippets that could be used to set up Angular 2 Development environment when working with Typescript programming language. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: App Folder Structure Creating Package.json Creating tsconfig.json Creating typings.json Execute NPM Install App Folder Structure Following is the app and files structure: ng2-apps app app.component.ts main.ts (optional): This file consists of code such as following to bootstrap the top-level component. The bootstrap function could as well be placed within the component file such as app.component.ts import …
Angular 2 – Hello World Concepts & Code Samples
This article represents concepts and code examples related with Angular 2 Hello World. Trust me it is not as simple as Angular 1 Hello World where we talked about familiar Controller, View and Model. Who said Angular had steep learning curve. Angular 2 is going to haunt an average UI developer much more. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: HelloWorld Component Concept HelloWorld Component Code Sample Index.html Code Sample HelloWorld Component Concept Following are some of the key points to note in the HelloComponent shown in …
Angular 2 – Components Explained with Code Examples
This article represents concepts and code samples around Angular 2 Components which resides at the heart of the Angular 2 framework as like Controller/Scope which resided at the heart of Angular 1 app. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: What are Components? Components Explained with Code Samples What are Components? Components are at the heart of Angular 2 apps. A component in Angular2 is used to represent a View along with associated logic (encapsulated as a Class), which will get executed based on interaction with …
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