Angular: Up and Running: Learning Angular, Step by Step

Honestly I don't understand why the average review here isn't 5 stars. The book is an outstanding piece of work and a rare find among other Angular texts. It blows away the competition in my opinion despite that it is already a little older now. The approach overall is superb at doing exactly what the title says it will do (get you up and running). The overall targeted content succeeds at not inundating the reader with painful tool setup and the samples work beautifully to gain traction with the reader. By the end of the book, you're left with a solid grasp of how to code and run an Angular web app. The book is quality writing with well-articulated samples.

very disappointed, code magically changes back-and-forth between chapters, makes you send extra effort that could have been spend on learning, also I gotten a handful of errors pop up, I double want to spend my time debugging problems, I bought a book so someone could take care of that crap and I could get to learning angular. It is less work to scrape the web for free information then follow along to this book

I am an experienced .Net developer and was taking a Udemy course in AngularJS when I realized that it was obsolete. So I got this book to re-start with the latest Angular. But now I find that this book's code, published only THREE months ago, is already obsolete. I can't even get 'ng serve' to work because my downloaded Angular/CLI version (6.2.1) requires an angular.json file rather than the deprecated .angular-cli.json file. When I Google the issue, I'm told to run the 'ng update @angular/cli --migrate-only --from=1.7.3' command to replace the old file (3 months old) with the new file. But it does not work!!Mr. Sheshadri, you really need to update all your code and make it available on git. As it is this book is worthless to a novice Angular learner. When I download and install Node.js, typescript, and Angular/CLI as instructed, and then download your codebase from GIT, nothing works. Sorry, but the truth hurts.

After reading the first 4 chapters (80 pages), I can do pretty much anything in Angular that I used to do in React! Very cool.As far as running the sample code, not a big issue for me. The code makes sense while reading and I can write my own sample code to play with the concepts.I recommend this book based on what I've read so far.

Excellent book, starts from the basics and a simple component and grow to all building blocks of angular.

The author has a bad habit of saying "type the following code" and then only explaining 80% of what you typed. Also, finished code is provided, which is good, because several times the progression of what the author is teaching/giving code examples of and the progression of the app the book is building are not aligned. This leaves you, the person trying to learn Angular, with an Angular app that won't work if you simply follow along with the author. You will have to just copy the finished code provided in if you want your app to work. It's doing me more harm than good.I've gotten so frustrated with trying to figure out why my code, which I wrote character for character from the instructions, won't run properly, that I've completely lost what was trying to be taught.Avoid this book.

The test sections in the book are lacking in description. Don't waste your money if you are expecting to get information on angular's (jasmine/karma) testing features.

I have read several books on the topic of Angular2+ and this one, together with Adam Freeman's "Essential Angular for ASP.net Core MVC" and "Pro Angular 6", are the ones I find myself referring to on a regular basis. The author has an excellent grasp of the material and a knack for selecting focused examples that clearly and simply illustrate the points he makes. The chapters on Reactive Forms, HTTP, and Routing are particularly good.

Great introduction to Angular training. Simple book with all the basics

This is a great book for a tricky subject.Its a great book to have so you can refer to. Theres a little duplication in the book in some of the chapter intros: "what we just did was this so we'll move on to this". Id also prefer to see a few more screenshots of the examples when they are run. But for someone who has really struggled with the subject this is a great book. The code is available on GIT too.

Excellent buy. Explanation is brilliant and grasping the contents is very easy. Thank you Shyam Seshadri.

Received in good condition

EDIT:I'm updating this review in context with other books, that I've tried. It's probably not the author's fault if Angular is so convolute. This book tries to demonstrate in very isolated examples most of the entry level options that you have with angular. Does a good job at it, it could be clearer, but I've seen worse.Most of the code needs to be updated. Some of the relative links are broken, and while the book has been published a bit more than a month ago, is not up to RxJS release, meaning that when you'll install the packages needed you will obtain a different version that will break the code. Although installing an old version will probably make the code work, it's just pointless to learn obsolete syntax.Some of the explanation were a little bit too intricate, and from chapter to chapter is not very linear - example (figurative):Chapter 9 is based on chapter 8, you modify the code and save.Chapter 10 is based on chapter 8, without the code introduced in chapter 9, meaning that it's really unfortunate to keep up with the author because he goes back and forth. Also since the code provided with the book doesn't run as much, you don't have much of a choice than go back and eventually restore chapter 8's state.I've got mixed feelings, still some valuable takeaways.