Understanding Angular

Angular is a powerful framework designed for building user interfaces, providing developers with a set of tools to quickly establish maintainable and scalable applications. It empowers developers to create applications that can seamlessly run on the web, mobile devices, or desktop platforms.

Collection Focus

This collection is dedicated to optimizing Angular applications across five key areas:

  1. Performance Improvement: Enhancing application performance to elevate user conversion and engagement.
  2. Reliability on Poor Networks: Utilizing the Angular service worker to precache assets and improve reliability on networks with limited connectivity.
  3. Search Engine and Social Media Visibility: Making applications discoverable for search engines and social media bots through techniques such as prerendering and server-side rendering.
  4. Installability: Providing an app-like user experience by making the application installable, similar to iOS or Android apps.
  5. Accessibility Enhancement: Improving the accessibility of applications to ensure usability and understanding for all users.

Each post in this collection delves into practical techniques that can be directly applied to enhance your Angular applications.

Prerequisites

This collection assumes familiarity with Angular and TypeScript. If you're not yet comfortable with these technologies, consider referring to the TypeScript documentation and the Getting Started with Angular guide on angular.io.

Version Compatibility with Node

Please note that Angular is supported with Node on it’s Even Versions only like 16,18 or 20.

ANGULAR NODE.JS TYPESCRIPT RXJS
17.1.0 ^18.13.0 ^20.9.0
17.0.x ^18.13.0 ^20.9.0
16.1.x 16.2.x ^16.14.0
16.0.x ^16.14.0 ^18.10.0
15.1.x 15.2.x ^14.20.0
15.0.x ^14.20.0 ^16.13.0

The Angular Command Line Interface (CLI) is a powerful tool for quickly setting up Angular applications. Here's a brief guide to kickstart your project:

Set Up the CLI

Install the Angular CLI globally and ensure you have the latest version:

npm i -g @angular/cli
npm link @angular/cli
ng --version