Welcome

- You know it wasn't that long ago when building complex client side applications in the webspace was quite an endeavor. We used to find ourselves needing to create our own framework base to do everything from state management, to validation, to HTTP calls and more. Well those days are definitely behind us. There are a plethora of client side frameworks available to us to take care of all the plumbing and allow us to get right to building client side applications. Angular is one of those frameworks. I'm Justin Schwartzenberger, and I'm looking forward to teaching you all you need to know to start building your client side applications using the latest version of the Angular framework.

With a focus on moving the web forward, Angular is built upon a component model packed with some amazing features for a Javascript framework. Things like Dependency Injection, ultra fast change detection, structure rich templates combined with ease of use interactions with existing on properties and events, and built in comprehensive routing make Angular a worthy framework for the future. We'll start by taking a look at how Angular works and what it's intended use is. Then we'll also look at the implementation details of using the framework.

Getting familiar with all the key pieces and patterns at your disposal. Finally we'll create a web app from start to finish using what we have covered. I'm excited to help you take your first steps to start building your own Angular applications. So lets get started.