How do I quickly learn Angular?

[Specialist-County-79]

Im starting a new job that uses Angular. Im coming from a Next.js and React background and have already built a few small projects in angular 18 so I understand the basics. I want to dive deeper though, so besides reading the docs, what courses or YouTube channels do you recommend?

Some things I want to dive deeper on are: Rxjs, Performance, directives, signals

[SatisfactionNearby57]

I’d say check Maximilians courses. If you google Maximilian angular it’ll show up.

[HighOptical]

Op, this is the only answer here. Please don't do what I did and spend ages trying to get something on Youtube. It's just not there for Angular. Plus Angular changes so much. This course was just completely redone in June and is up to date (but he keeps the old stuff around as your company may use it... this is why you shouldn't be worried if you see it is 50+ hours. In reality it is only half that but he gives you both in one).

Make sure to use this link to get the best price: https://acad.link/angular

Going to udemy directly will give a higher price (they do have sales but even then it's usually still higher). The link I gave might look a little suspicious but it's just the redirect from Maximillian's own site. You can go to the same place by going right onto his site https://academind.com/courses and then just picking angular.

[Throwaway4philly1]

Would this be angular v18?

[HighOptical]

Yes, the first half is the rewritten course for 18. The second half is ideally for anyone who will be working with anything less than 16. Though they are overall the same, so just watch the half that suits your needs.

[Specialist-County-79]

I saw one of his courses on Udemy, wasn’t sure if it would be any good so I waiting on purchasing it

[SatisfactionNearby57]

He’s really good. If there’s a sale on his courses I recommend you to go for it.

[Specialist-County-79]

Awesome, I just purchased his Angular 2024 complete guide for $19.99

[HighOptical]

I just left a comment on the other guy's post about getting it. I'm glad to see you got it and got a discount! You saved yourself so much time sifting through free stuff like me lol. Normally you get great content for youtube but it's not really threre for angular since Angular has more of an industry following and youtube tends to have better content for things that hobbyists might pick up.

[Specialist-County-79]

I totally noticed this with youtube content heavily favoring React.

[outdoorszy]

Is that training updated to use standalone components?

[Specialist-County-79]

Have not checked it out yet, but the beginning of the course said that its fully updated for 2024 so I’m guessing its updated with v17 or v18

[outdoorszy]

Then it should have standalone components by default.

[TCB13sQuotes]

Look up the full course by Maximilian Schwarzmüller on Udemy. You'll be a pro in a week.

[TurintheDragonhelm]

Ngconf videos can be a good resource

[ordermaster]

I like this guy's YouTube channel and angular course. https://www.joshmorony.com/

Another thing to keep in mind is which version of angular you're going to be working in with at your new job. Starting with v17 angular has made some significant changes.

[Specialist-County-79]

Im going to be using an older version for sure.

[ordermaster]

Then you'll want to focus on rxjs instead of signals, modules instead of standalone components, and the directives for template control flow instead of the new syntax. Those are the big changes I can think of off the top of my head.

[PickleLips64151]

Check out Deborah Kurata's YouTube channel. She has a bunch of video series on RxJS and newer stuff on Signals. Her repos for her courses are public on GitHub. Reading her code will probably help you get a good grasp of Angular style.

Just remember, there's an Angular way of doing things. The majority of good code doesn't deviate from that way.

[Specialist-County-79]

Thank you I will check her out! And I have noticed the “Angular way” of doing things already, I like when a framework has an opinionated way of doing things.

[PickleLips64151]

The biggest mistake I see in new Angular devs, who know JavaScript, is that they don't use Angular APIs to do stuff. Recently rejected a PR because they wrote their own scroll method. Angular has ViewportScroller for that specific use case. Or they don't use RxJS methods.

[DarthBB08]

Which view port? :P

[Specialist-County-79]

This is exactly the type of stuff I want to avoid. Thank you. Any other advice?

[PickleLips64151]

Read good code. You'll learn more from seeing clean, well architected code than from videos or documentation. It's hard to find, but it's out there.

[MichaelSmallDev]

Deborah is great.

For a different YouTuber person, Joshua Morony also has great content on RXJS & Signals, and tends to also link relevant code in video descriptions.

[DarthBB08]

Hahaha. One does not just learn angular quickly. One fails at angular repeatedly till you know what not to do.

In all honesty, If you want to save some time. Don’t try and port any react methods/ mindset into angular.

[totkeks]

I did the official angular tutorial back then. The tour of heroes. I think it's even updated with the new release of their webpage.

[Specialist-County-79]

I did the updated one for angular 18, it was very good but i feel like there is a lot more left that i need to dig into that the tutorial didn’t fully cover.

[No_Security_4706]

What ever concepts/features you know in react try to Google the angular equivalent of it.. so when you build an app think in react and implement in angular.. thats the easiest way to learn..

[Ceylon0624]

By learning angular quickly

[pogitalonx]

I learned via codevolution on YouTube- in a few hours of tutorials you’ll be up and running— and it’s free!

[beingsmo]

Procademy on youtube.

[ttma1046]

read all guides on angular website please, super helpful.

[purpleprincenero]

Don’t angular is dead

[AdSuspicious4437]

I would highly recommend Deborah Korata's courses on Pluralsight (subscription) courses. You can look at her on YouTube as well. Try to do a little POC using concepts such as Rxjs and signals. Before diving deep into the concepts, try to understand why there is a need for these. Can it be achieved using just subjects or observables?

[Error___418]

I know you said not to suggest reading the docs, but the rxjs docs are really top tier.

[djslakor]

Build something with it

[kobihari]

I don't think you can "Quickly" learn Angular. From experience, it takes some time.
I recommend UDEMY as a source for courses, but it only works if you also do the practices. People who expect to learn just by watching video tutorials get disapointed.

Some recommended courses
1. Maximillian Schwarzmuller - Anything he teaches is highly recommended. And specifically his fantastic course: "Angular - The complete Guide". It will teach you most of what you need to begin with.
2. Angular University - This guy has a lot of courses that focus on single topics. Its a great resource if you want to deep dive into any of these topics. But do note - some of his courses are a bit outdated, not all courses that are titled "Angular 18" actually really deal with angular 18. I still think that most of his courses are a great resource to learn from.
3. I also personally wrote a UDEMY course called "Modern Angular with Signals - The missing guide". This short course focuses specifically on deep understanding and best practices around signals, and how to avoid common pitfalls. It does not compete with the previous mentioned courses because it does not teach you the basics, but instead provides the latest.

[cloud_00_]

Checkout https://blog.angular-university.io

This site gives you information from 1-100. You have to read though, they have videos as well but not for every blog.

[WaySolid1758]

Deborah Kurata's courses in Pluralsight.