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include ../_util-fns
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# Tour of Heroes: the vision
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Our grand plan is to build an app to help a staffing agency manage its stable of heroes.
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Even heroes need to find work.
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Of course we'll only make a little progress in this tutorial. What we do build will
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have many of the features we expect to find in a full-blown, data-driven application: acquiring and displaying
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a list of heroes, editing a selected hero's detail, and navigating among different
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views of heroic data.
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The Tour of Heroes covers the core fundamentals of Angular.
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We’ll use built-in directives to show/hide elements and display lists of hero data.
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We’ll create a component to display hero details and another to show an array of heroes.
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We'll use one-way data binding for read-only data. We'll add editable fields to update a model
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with two-way data binding. We'll bind component methods to user events like key strokes and clicks.
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We’ll learn to select a hero from a master list and edit that hero in the details view. We'll
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format data with pipes. We'll create a shared service to assemble our heroes. And we'll use routing to navigate among different views and their components.
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We’ll learn enough core Angular to get started and gain confidence that
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Angular can do whatever we need it to do.
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We'll be covering a lot of ground at an introductory level but we’ll find plenty of links
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to chapters with greater depth.
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Run the <live-example name="toh-6"></live-example>.
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.l-main-section
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## The End Game
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Here's a visual idea of where we're going in this tour, beginning with the "Dashboard"
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view and our most heroic heroes:
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/toh/heroes-dashboard-1.png' alt="Output of heroes dashboard")
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Above the dashboard are two links ("Dashboard" and "Heroes").
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We could click them to navigate between this Dashboard and a Heroes view.
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Instead we click the dashboard hero named "Magneta" and the router takes us to a "Hero Details" view
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of that hero where we can change the hero's name.
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/toh/hero-details-1.png' alt="Details of hero in app")
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Clicking the "Back" button would return us to the "Dashboard".
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Links at the top can take us to either of the main views.
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We'll click "Heroes". The app takes to the "Heroes" master list view.
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/toh/heroes-list-2.png' alt="Output of heroes list app")
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We click a different hero and the readonly mini-detail beneath the list reflects our new choice.
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We click the "View Details" button to drill into the
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editable details of our selected hero.
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The following diagram captures all of our navigation options.
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/toh/nav-diagram.png' alt="View navigations")
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Here's our app in action
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/toh/toh-anim.gif' alt="Tour of Heroes in Action")
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.l-main-section
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## Up Next
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We’ll build this Tour of Heroes together, step by step.
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We'll motivate each step with a requirement that we've
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met in countless applications. Everything has a reason.
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And we’ll meet many of the core fundamentals of Angular along the way.
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[Let's get started!](./toh-pt1.html)
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