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The Developer Guide is a practical guide to Angular for experienced programmers who
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img(src="/resources/images/devguide/intro/people.png" alt="Us" align="left" style="width:200px; margin-left:-40px;margin-right:10px" )
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The Developer Guide is a practical guide to Angular for experienced programmers who
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We are on a journey together to understand how Angular works and, more importantly,
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We are on a journey together to understand how Angular works and, more importantly,
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how to make it work for us. We look at our application requirements and we see problems to solve.
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how to make it work for us. This chapter begins the journey.
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* How do we get data onto the screen and handle user interactions?
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* How do we organize our code into manageable, cohesive chunks of functionality that work together?
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* What are the essential Angular building blocks and how do they help?
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* How do we minimize routine, mechanical coding in favor of declarative, higher level constructs without losing control?
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This chapter begins the journey.
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# How to Read this Guide
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# How to Read this Guide
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The chapters of this guide target an Angular feature and how to use it to solve a programming problem.
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## Chapters
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The guide consists of chapters devoted to the challenges of building an application and
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The guide consists of chapters devoted to the challenges of building an application and
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meeting those challenges with Angular.
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meeting those challenges with Angular.
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A few early chapters are written as tutorials and are clearly marked as such.
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Most chapters are *not* tutorials and do not explain every step necessary to build the accompanying sample.
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These chapters highlight key points in code but generally don't include the entire source.
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We can get that source by way of the live link to the chapter's code sample.
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## Code Samples
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Every chapter includes code snippets ... snippets we can reuse in our own applications.
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Typically, these snippets are excerpts from a running sample application that accompanies the chapter.
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We usually find a link to a live version of that sample near the top of the chapter ... like this one.
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[Live Example](/resources/live-examples/architecture/ts/plnkr.html)
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This link opens in a browser and runs the sample code supporting this chapter's architecture overview.
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We can inspect, modify, save, and download the code.
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## Learning Path
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## Learning Path
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We don't have to read this guide straight through. Most chapters stand on their own.
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We don't have to read the guide straight through. Most chapters stand on their own.
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We can browse to any of them as our interest or some necessity moves us.
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There is a learning path for those of us who are new to Angular.
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But there is a learning path for those of us who are new to Angular.
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1. Read the [Architecture Overview](architecture.html) to get the big picture.
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1. Read the [Architecture Overview](architecture.html) to get the big picture.
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Simple, yes, but with the essential characteristics we'd expect of a professional application:
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Simple, yes, but with the essential characteristics we'd expect of a professional application:
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a sensible project structure, data binding, master/detail, services, dependency injection, navigation, and remote data access.
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a sensible project structure, data binding, master/detail, services, dependency injection, navigation, and remote data access.
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The final iteration of the "[Tour of Heroes](#toh)" is a positive answer to that most important question:
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***can we build an Angular 2 application that does what we need it to do?***
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Return from the tutorial to the basic chapters of this Developers Guide.
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1. [Displaying Data](displaying-data.html) explains how to get information on to the screen.
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1. [Displaying Data](displaying-data.html) explains how to get information on to the screen.
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1. [Template Syntax](template-syntax.html) is a comprehensive study of Angular template HTML.
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1. [Template Syntax](template-syntax.html) is a comprehensive study of Angular template HTML.
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With this foundation, we can read and understand any chapter in the guide.
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With this foundation, we can read and understand any chapter in the guide.
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## Other Resources
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Don't neglect the other documentation resources.
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The "[Cheat Sheet](cheatsheet.html)" is a handy map to Angular overall.
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Look for a link to a running version of that sample near the top of each page
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such as this [live example](/resources/live-examples/architecture/ts/plnkr.html) from the [Architecture](architecture.html) chapter.
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The link launches a browser-based code editor where we can inspect, modify, save, and download the code.
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The [Cheat Sheet](cheatsheet.html) lists Angular syntax for common scenarios.
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The [API Guide](../api/) is the authority on every public-facing member of the Angular libraries.
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The [API Guide](../api/) is the authority on every public-facing member of the Angular libraries.
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# Appendix: The Hero Staffing Agency
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The final phase of the tutorial Tour of Heroes app runs like this.
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There's a backstory to the "Tour of Heroes" and every sample in this guide.
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The world is full of crises large and small.
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We welcome feedback! Leave a comment by clicking the icon in upper right corner of the banner.
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Fortunately, there are courageous heroes prepared to take on every challenge.
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The shadowy "Hero Staffing Agency" matches crises to heroes.
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We are contract developers, hired by The Agency to build an Angular application to manage their operations.
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The Agency maintains a stable of heroes with special powers.
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Ordinary humans call the agency, looking for help with their personal or global crises.
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The Agency triages the crises and turns them into job requests.
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The heroes on staff bid to take a job and The Agency
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Our application handles every detail of recruiting, tracking and job assignment.
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Post issues with *Angular 2 itself* to the [angular](https://github.com/angular/angular) github repository.
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