Pro Angular 9: Build Powerful and Dynamic Web Apps Paperback – January 1, 2020

I very much like this book. It is quite advanced however, and covers a lot of material. Since I am a newcomer to Angular it takes time to work through things and understand things properly. The author , Adam Freeman, describes concepts and guides the reader through the process of building the SportsStore application (a sample application) .The author is always very thorough in his explanations of concepts and his instructions on how to get things working. Previous books from the same author describe Typescript (Essential Typescript From Beginner to Pro) and integrating Angular with Web API (Essential Angular for ASP.NET Core MVC 3). The book on TypeScript is particularly useful in this regard. The author recognizes right at the start that the best way of learning is by doing and the author goes out of his way to make the instructions easy to follow. There is also a project on GitHub that can be downloaded to make working through the exercises easier. This book is highly recommended if you want to learn Angular . You will need to be prepared to spend time on the book and work through the exercises to get the most from this book however.

This is my third try at trying to learn Angular. I tried two newer books on new versions. It may be that I needed three tries before things would stick in my mind. Or, it may be that as software becomes more powerful with newer facilities there is less room to explain and motivate the fundamentals. (For marketing reasons a book needs to cover the new stuff, but also not be too big.)But anyway, this time I'm keeping up so far (half way through the book).I still think it would be nice if someone could write an Angular book for beginners that never says, "Ignore these details for now; they'll be explained later." But that may be due to the way Angular was created, by assembling lots of pre-existing complex technologies instead of designing something from scratch. That seems to be the way the web has always worked.

As a C# developer I discovered that Angular works very well with ASP.Net and I read his other book "Essential Angular for ASP.NET Core MVC 3" first and started out developing a great tool. Then I found that I did not fully understand the Angular side with TypeScript/JavaScript. Yes I could use it and copy-cat great working solutions, but the real understanding came when I worked through all the excellent examples in this book. By now I created 2 SportsStores by following the excellent build up of the examples in the books.I can highly recommend Adam's books.

This book has everything you need to get off the ground. Like a parent leading a child, the author holds your hand through example after excrutiating example and gets the job done. However, if you are more of an adult programmer, you will find the repetition wasteful and will lament the lack of concise api definitions. If he cut out all of the repetition and cut the code samples down to the bare minimum, this book would be half as long and twice as valuable. That said, it was still the best Angular book I could find.

This book came highly recommended and I figured even dated, it would be a good way to build Angular skills. I was WRONG!!At pg 13 of 700+ Pages, I couldn't get even the MOST BASIC page to open because ofout of date dependencies. After 6 hours trying to find a work around, I gave up.DON'T WASTE UR MONEY...buy something new.

As I read this book, chapter after chapter, I start to discover that there are outside ways better to learn about Angular.Each time the author explains something that I don't really get, I start searching on the web and find a way better explanation.As example, the Reactive Extensions which is a corner stone of Angular and not just for advanced cases is 35 pages of the book. The explanation of observable and promise are in my view much better explains in other books that I've read (Reactive Programming with RxJS 5, Build Reactive Websites with RxJS).There are too many explanations about HTML, Boostrap, and other components that are not directly related to Angular.There is also too much code repeated sample after sample which not give help while reading the book.Note that I have the kindle version where no code is in bold and the author mentioned a the beginning of the book that he highlight in bold part of the code related to his example. Considering again for 75$, there is no excuse to don't have feature like that in the kindle edition.That would be a good book in early 2000's but in 2021, authors should really try to give something with books that really give a bonus compared to reading online documentation. I've read the Ninja Squad Angular and as example, the author take the time progressively to explain what is observable, promise, core components of Javascript how all these pieces works together and this is the way to learn something like Angular.This book cost me 75$ CAN which is too much money. Ok, 1OOO+ pages but if you removed the repeated samples, the book could be less than 500 pages.

Decent book for beginners/semi-experienced developers, but missing or lacking explanations of advanced Angular features.

Very easy to follow, detailed explanations of advanced features.After sooo many years of writing books Adam's style just gets better and better with every new edition.I read other books by Adam Freeman and he always delivers.Highly recommend.