Better Angular tutorials

July 26, 2023 4:28 PM

I need to learn Angular quickly. The introductory tutorial on angular.io is pretty bad. What text-based (not video) tutorial or (short) book do you recommend?

I know web dev in general, with a lot of experience in html, django, jquery, etc, and I use vanilla javascript a lot but am not an expert in it.
I need to work on a pre-existing Angular project, so I don't need to become a real expert, I need to know enough to find my way around and not break things.
I realize that a lot of people prefer video as a way to learn things. I'm not one of them, which is why I'm asking for text-based materials.

posted by signal to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Which Angular.io tutorial did you use? I can speak from my own and coworkers’ experience that Tour of Heroes is quite good. It starts slow but quickly builds to give you a fantastic overview of the framework. I can’t speak to the other one (“your first angular app”), it might be bad, but if you felt that ToH was bad because of how it starts then I’d highly recommend that you stick with it.

If you didn’t try ToH, then that’s my suggestion.

If there was something else you didn’t like about ToH, can you give a bit more detail in order to help determine what might be a better fit for you?
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 9:26 PM on July 26, 2023

Response by poster: I tried the "your first..." one and it was pretty bad, whole pages devoted to like 2 lines of code, without even explaining what it was doing, and everything is called 'home' something, making it really hard to keep straight what's what.
I'll try ToH, thanks!
posted by signal at 6:10 AM on July 27, 2023 [1 favorite]

See if this works for you:

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/10/30/basic-crud-angular-and-node

(I used this for more than just Angular. You can skip the Node stuff if you want.)
posted by queen anne's remorse at 6:14 PM on July 31, 2023