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There are many ways to build web applications. We'll explore what makes Angular 2 a good framework for developers.
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On Angular 4 Onwards
Angular 4 will be a drop-in replacement for most users. It should be as simple as updating your package.json with the appropriate version numbers.
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Hello there, I'm Andrew, a JavaScript developer and teacher here at TreeHouse.
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Welcome to the Angular Basics course.
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Angular is a platform by Google for developing client side applications.
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Not only can angular applications target web browsers for
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mobile and desktop devices.
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You can also develop native apps for iOS, and Android devices using native script.
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Angular has a large community of developers sharing what they're building
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with the platform.
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Angular Expo has many great examples of Angular applications.
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The sound cloud app is an angular application that taps into the sound
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cloud API.
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It allows a user to set for an artist to track.
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Fine tracks added by a specific user see of the track that the user has liked, and
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basic playback controls to listen to a track.
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Another angular application is the Echoes YouTube player.
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The Echoes YouTube application allows you to search for, and play YouTube videos.
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On the left of the screen there is a playlist.
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When you click a video on the main pane it's added to your playlist.
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At the bottom of the screen, you have the player back controls.
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The application will even let you log in and
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create playlists using your Google+ account.
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In this course, we'll be building a photo blog application.
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You'll learn how to retrieve and display information in an Angular application.
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You'll also learn how to create simple forms for user input.
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You may be asking, why should I learn the Angular platform?
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Angular is modular and being modular,
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you're in control of every piece of GUID you include in your application.
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When your application is bundled and
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ready to be sent off to the browser, it will ultimately be in it's simplest form,
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reducing the time it takes to run the application.
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In previous versions of Angular,
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the full Angular framework was included with every application.
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Angular is the first framework to leverage a statically typed version of JavaScript,
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typescript.
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Typescript a type super set of JavaScript lets developers move
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quickly by keeping them in their Editor and focused on their code.
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With static typing, you spend less time reading documentation and
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more time building your application.
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We'll discuss more about TypeScript later on.
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Google has hundreds of internal applications built on Angular.
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The internal teams that rely on the platform provide valuable feedback.
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Also, the Angular team is very involved in the community.
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Angular is an open source project with many contributors outside of Google.
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It is a platform built by and for the community.
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There is an important distinction between Angular JS And Angular.
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Angular JS refers to Angular version 1.
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And the JS has been dropped from version 2 onwards.
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The removal of the JS was to show a clean break in the evolution
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between Angular as a framework to become a new modern platform.
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Angular can be used in many different scenarios now, not just web applications.
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In this course, we'll not be covering Angular JS, but Angular, and
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its modern approach to building clientside web applications.
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Now that we've covered, why would one select an Angular?
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Let's take a look at how Angular works.
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