Angular UI Development with PrimeNG

Written by Oleg Varaksin and Sudheer Jonna. Powered by the dream team - Angular 4 and PrimeNG 4. :dizzy:

Book on Packt's website: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learning-angular-ui-development-primeng

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1, Getting Started with Angular and PrimeNG

  • TypeScript fundamentals you need to know
  • Advanced types, decorators, compiler options
  • Angular cheat sheet: overview of key concepts
  • Angular modularity and lifecycle hooks
  • Running PrimeNG with SystemJS
  • Setup PrimeNG project with Webpack
  • Setup PrimeNG project with Angular CLI

• Chapter 2, Theming Concept and Layouts

  • Understanding structural and skinning CSS
  • Organize your project structure with Sass
  • Simple ways to create a new theme
  • Responsive grid system in PrimeNG
  • Bootstrap flexbox layout meets PrimeNG

• Chapter 3, Enhanced Inputs and Selects

  • Formatted input with InputMask
  • Auto suggestion with AutoComplete
  • Entering multiple values with Chips
  • Discovering checkbox: Boolean, Many and TriState
  • Choosing items with single and multi select components
  • Basic and advanced calendar scenarios
  • Spinner and Slider – different ways to provide input
  • Text editing with rich and in-place editors
  • Password and star-based rating inputs
  • Validation with Input and Select components

• Chapter 4, Button and Panel Components

  • Enhanced Button, RadioButton and SplitButton
  • Selecting value by ToggleButton and SelectButton
  • Grouping buttons with Toolbar
  • Arrange your view with Panels and Fieldsets
  • Vertical stacked panels with Accordion
  • Grouping content with tabs in TabView

• Chapter 5, Data Iteration Components

  • Multi feature DataTable
  • Selecting rows in DataTable
  • Sorting, filtering and paginating data in DataTable
  • Customizing cell content with templating
  • Resizing, reordering and toggling columns in DataTable
  • In-cell editing with DataTable
  • Making DataTable responsive
  • Using column and row grouping
  • Handling tons of data with lazy DataTable
  • Row expansion by providing row template
  • Export data in CSV format
  • DataTable events and methods
  • Listing data with DataList
  • Listing data with PickList
  • Listing data with OrderList
  • Grid-organized data with DataGrid
  • On demand data loading with DataScroller
  • Visualizing data with Tree
  • Visualizing data with TreeTable
  • Managing events with Schedule

• Chapter 6, Amazing Overlays and Messages

  • Displaying content in Dialog
  • Displaying content in Lightbox
  • Multipurpose scenarios with OverlayPanel
  • Notifying users with Messages and Growl
  • Tooltips for form components

• Chapter 7, Endless Menu Variations

  • Statically and dynamically positioned menus
  • Creating programmatic menus by MenuModel
  • Accessing commands via Menubar
  • ContextMenu with nested items
  • SlideMenu – menu in the iPod style
  • TieredMenu – submenus in nested overlays
  • MegaMenu – the multicolumn menu
  • PanelMenu – hybrid of accordion and tree
  • TabMenu - menu items as tabs
  • Breadcrumb – providing contextual information about page hierarchy

• Chapter 8, Creating Charts and Maps

  • Working with chart model
  • Data representation with line and bar charts
  • Data representation with pie and doughnut charts
  • Data representation with radar and polar area charts
  • Drawing organization chart for relationship hierarchy
  • Basic integration with Google Map API
  • Various use cases with GMap component

• Chapter 9, Miscellaneous Use Cases and Best Practices

  • File uploading in all its glory
  • Learning Draggable and Droppable directives
  • Displaying collection of images with Galleria
  • CRUD sample implementation with DataTable
  • Deferring mechanism to optimize page loading
  • Blocking page pieces during long-running AJAX calls
  • Process status indicator in action
  • Selecting colors with ColorPicker
  • Displaying confirmation dialog with guarded routes
  • Implementing custom wizard component with Steps
  • Introduction to state management with @ngrx/store

• Chapter 10, Creating Robust Applications

  • Setting up unit testing with Jasmine and Karma
  • Unit testing of Components and Services
  • Tip how to speed up unit testing
  • Setting up e2e test environment with Protractor
  • Writing automated UI tests at a glance
  • Exploring PrimeNG application with Augury and ng.probe

Additional Resources:

1. The Angular's official internationalization support powered by PrimeNG components is explained in this blog post and the GitHub project is available here: https://github.com/sudheerj/angular-primeng-i18n
2. The internationalization support for Angular and PrimeNG using ngx-translate is explained in this blog post and the GitHub project is available here: https://github.com/sudheerj/angular-primeng-ngxtranslate
3. PrimeNG 4.1 RELEASE changes(new components, new features, bug fixes and improvements) are explained in this blog post and the GitHub project is avialable here: https://github.com/sudheerj/primeng-4.1
4. The PrimeNG dataTable supporting JSON nested structure is explained in this blog post and the GitHub project is available here: https://github.com/sudheerj/Datatable-NestedJSON
   5. JHipster-PrimeNG module is explained in this blog post and the GitHub project is available here: https://github.com/sudheerj/generator-jhipster-primeng