Create housing location component

[JorisSchelfaut]

YouTube : Components in Angular - Learning Angular (Part 3)

1. Create the HousingLocationComponent

In this step, you create a new component for your app. In the Terminal pane of your IDE:

1. In your project directory, navigate to the first-app directory.
2. Run this command to create a new HousingLocationComponent

   ng generate component housingLocation

3. Run this command to build and serve your app.

   ng serve

   Note: This step is only for your local environment!

4. Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:4200 to find the application.
5. Confirm that the app builds without error. HELPFUL: It should render the same as it did in the previous lesson because even though you added a new component, you haven't included it in any of the app's templates, yet.
6. Leave ng serve running as you complete the next steps.

2. Add the new component to your app's layout

In this step, you add the new component, HousingLocationComponent to your app's HomeComponent, so that it displays in your app's layout. In the Edit pane of your IDE:

1. Open home.component.ts in the editor.
2. In home.component.ts, import HousingLocationComponent by adding this line to the file level imports.

   import {Component} from '@angular/core';
   import {CommonModule} from '@angular/common';
   import {HousingLocationComponent} from '../housing-location/housing-location.component';
   @Component({
     selector: 'app-home',
     standalone: true,
     imports: [CommonModule, HousingLocationComponent],
     template: `
       <section>
         <form>
           <input type="text" placeholder="Filter by city" />
           <button class="primary" type="button">Search</button>
         </form>
       </section>
       <section class="results">
         <app-housing-location></app-housing-location>
       </section>
     `,
     styleUrls: ['./home.component.css'],
   })
   export class HomeComponent {}

3. Next update the imports property of the @Component metadata by adding HousingLocationComponent to the array.

   import {Component} from '@angular/core';
   import {CommonModule} from '@angular/common';
   import {HousingLocationComponent} from '../housing-location/housing-location.component';
   @Component({
     selector: 'app-home',
     standalone: true,
     imports: [CommonModule, HousingLocationComponent],
     template: `
       <section>
         <form>
           <input type="text" placeholder="Filter by city" />
           <button class="primary" type="button">Search</button>
         </form>
       </section>
       <section class="results">
         <app-housing-location></app-housing-location>
       </section>
     `,
     styleUrls: ['./home.component.css'],
   })
   export class HomeComponent {}

4. Now the component is ready for use in the template for the HomeComponent. Update the template property of the @Component metadata to include a reference to the tag.

   template: `
       <section>
         <form>
           <input type="text" placeholder="Filter by city" />
           <button class="primary" type="button">Search</button>
         </form>
       </section>
       <section class="results">
         <app-housing-location></app-housing-location>
       </section>
     `,

3. Add the styles for the component

In this step, you will copy over the pre-written styles for the HousingLocationComponent to your app so that the app renders properly.

1. Open src/app/housing-location/housing-location.component.css, and paste the styles below into the file: Note: In the browser, these can go in src/app/housing-location/housing-location.component.ts in the styles array.

   .listing {
     background: var(--accent-color);
     border-radius: 30px;
     padding-bottom: 30px;
   }
   .listing-heading {
     color: var(--primary-color);
     padding: 10px 20px 0 20px;
   }
   .listing-photo {
     height: 250px;
     width: 100%;
     object-fit: cover;
     border-radius: 30px 30px 0 0;
   }
   .listing-location {
     padding: 10px 20px 20px 20px;
   }
   .listing-location::before {
     content: url("/assets/location-pin.svg") / "";
   }
   section.listing a {
     padding-left: 20px;
     text-decoration: none;
     color: var(--primary-color);
   }
   section.listing a::after {
     content: "\203A";
     margin-left: 5px;
   }

2. Save your code, return to the browser and confirm that the app builds without error. You should find the message "housing-location works!" rendered to the screen.Correct any errors before you continue to the next step.

[JorisSchelfaut]

NOTE: In the YouTube video, the lecturer suggests using --inline-template to not create the template as a separate HTML file;, but instead use the inline notation:

template: `
...some html...
`

as well as the --standalone flag