Pro Angular 9: Build Powerful and Dynamic Web Apps Paperback – 12 June 2020

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

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.

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.