Web Development

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Webpack 4
Welcome to this presentation on web development with
Angular and Webpack 4. This presentation aims to give you a
solid understanding of these powerful tools, so you can start
building efficient and scalable web applications.

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by Pavan Saketh
Overview of Angular
Angular is a popular and versatile JavaScript framework, built and maintained by
Google. It's known for its robust architecture, powerful features, and large
community support. Angular offers a comprehensive framework for building
complex web applications, using TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript.

1 Component-Based 2 Data Binding

Architecture
Angular's data binding simplifies
Angular promotes modularity and the communication between your
reusability through its component- application's components and the
based architecture. This makes it user interface, ensuring data
easy to organize and maintain consistency and responsiveness.
your code.

3 Dependency Injection 4 Routing and Navigation

Dependency injection is a Angular's routing system allows
powerful technique for managing you to create single-page
dependencies in your Angular applications with multiple views,
application, improving code enabling seamless navigation and
organization and testability. user experience.
Key Features and Benefits of Angular
Angular empowers developers with a wide array of features. The combination of these features leads to
efficient, scalable, and maintainable web applications.

Performance and Scalability Testability and Cross-Platform Capabilities

Maintainability
Angular is designed with Angular provides tools and
performance and scalability in Angular's architecture and libraries for building cross-
mind. It offers optimization features are built to be easily platform applications, allowing
techniques and tools for testable and maintainable. The you to target different platforms
building high-performance web framework supports unit like web, mobile, and desktop
applications, capable of testing, integration testing, and using a single codebase.
handling large datasets and end-to-end testing, making it
complex interactions. easier to ensure the quality and
reliability of your applications.
Introduction to Webpack 4
Webpack is a powerful and versatile module bundler, widely used in modern
web development. It takes your project's modules, including JavaScript, CSS,
images, fonts, and more, and bundles them into optimized files for efficient
delivery to the browser.

Module Bundling Code Splitting

Webpack collects your project's Webpack allows you to split your

modules and bundles them into application's code into smaller
optimized files for efficient chunks, improving initial load
loading in the browser. times and performance.

Asset Optimization Development Server

Webpack can optimize your Webpack provides a development

assets, such as images, CSS, and server that enables hot module
fonts, by minifying them and replacement, allowing you to see
using caching strategies to changes reflected in the browser
improve performance. without a full page reload.
Advantages of using Webpack with Angular
Webpack and Angular are a powerful combination, allowing for efficient development and deployment of web applications.

1 2 3 4

Enhanced Performance Improved Development Modular Architecture Flexibility and Customization

Workflow
Webpack's optimization Webpack enables a more Webpack's highly customizable
features, including code Webpack's development server modular architecture for nature allows developers to
splitting and asset and hot module replacement Angular applications, making it tailor the build process to meet
optimization, improve the capabilities streamline the easier to manage the specific needs of their
performance of Angular development process, allowing dependencies, organize code, Angular projects, optimizing for
applications, resulting in faster for rapid feedback and faster and test individual different environments and
loading times and a better user iteration cycles. components. performance targets.
experience.
Setting up an Angular project with Webpack
4
Setting up an Angular project with Webpack 4 involves a few steps, including creating a new
project, configuring Webpack, and integrating it with your Angular application.

Create Angular Project

Use the Angular CLI to create a new Angular project. The CLI will automatically set
up the basic project structure and dependencies.

Install Webpack

Install Webpack and its dependencies using npm or yarn. This step involves
installing the necessary packages to use Webpack within your project.

Configure Webpack

Create a Webpack configuration file ([Link]) to define the build process

and how your modules are bundled.

Integrate with Angular

Modify your Angular project's configuration to use Webpack as the build tool. This
step involves setting up the necessary scripts and configurations to integrate
Webpack with Angular.
Configuring Webpack for Angular
Development
Configuring Webpack for Angular development requires careful consideration
of various aspects, such as entry points, output directories, loaders, and
plugins.
Entry Points Define the starting points of your
application, specifying the main
JavaScript files to be bundled.

Output Directory Specify where the bundled files

should be placed after the build
process.
Loaders Define how to process different
types of files, such as JavaScript,
CSS, and images, during the build
process.
Plugins Extend Webpack's functionality to
add features like code splitting,
minification, and environment
variables.
Optimizing Angular Applications with
Webpack
Webpack offers a range of optimization techniques that can significantly improve the
performance of Angular applications.

Code Splitting Minification

Divide your application's code into Remove unnecessary characters from

smaller chunks, improving initial load your code, such as whitespace and
times and reducing the amount of comments, resulting in smaller file sizes
JavaScript that needs to be downloaded and faster download times.
initially.

Caching Tree Shaking

Implement caching strategies to store Eliminate unused code, resulting in

frequently accessed files in the browser's smaller bundle sizes and improved
cache, reducing the number of requests performance. This process identifies and
to the server and speeding up subsequent removes unused code, minimizing the
page loads. amount of JavaScript that needs to be
downloaded and executed.
Deploying Angular Apps Built with Webpack
Deploying your Angular app built with Webpack involves a few steps, including building the application,
configuring the deployment environment, and deploying the files.

Production Build Deployment Environment Deploy Files

Use Webpack to create a Choose a deployment Transfer the production build files
production build of your environment, such as a cloud to your chosen deployment
application, which will optimize platform or a web server, where environment and configure the
the code and assets for efficient your Angular application will be server to serve the application.
delivery to users. hosted.
Conclusion and Key
Takeaways
Angular and Webpack are powerful tools for modern web
development. Use these tools to build sophisticated,
performant, and scalable web applications.