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No. Questions

1 What is Angular Framework?

2 What is the difference between AngularJS and Angular?

3 What is TypeScript?

4 Write a pictorial diagram of Angular architecture?

5 What are the key components of Angular?

6 What are directives?

7 What are components?

8 What are the differences between Component and Directive?

9 What is a template?

10 What is a module?

11 What are lifecycle hooks available?

12 What is a data binding?

13 What is metadata?

14 What is Angular CLI?

15 What is the difference between constructor and ngOnInit?

16 What is a service

17 What is dependency injection in Angular?

18 How is Dependency Hierarchy formed?

19 What is the purpose of async pipe?

20 What is the option to choose between inline and external template file?

21 What is the purpose of *ngFor directive?

22 What is the purpose of ngIf directive?

23 What happens if you use script tag inside template?

24 What is interpolation?

25 What are template expressions?

26 What are template statements?

27 How do you categorize data binding types?

28 What are pipes?

29 What is a parameterized pipe?

30 How do you chain pipes?

31 What is a custom pipe?

32 Give an example of custom pipe?

33 What is the difference between pure and impure pipe?

34 What is a bootstrapping module?

35 What are observables?

36 What is HttpClient and its benefits?

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37 Explain on how to use HttpClient with an example?

38 How can you read full response?

39 How do you perform Error handling?

40 What is RxJS?

41 What is subscribing?

42 What is an observable?

43 What is an observer?

44 What is the difference between promise and observable?

45 What is multicasting?

46 How do you perform error handling in observables?

47 What is the short hand notation for subscribe method?

48 What are the utility functions provided by RxJS?

49 What are observable creation functions?

50 What will happen if you do not supply handler for observer?

51 What are angular elements?

52 What is the browser support of Angular Elements?

53 What are custom elements?

54 Do I need to bootstrap custom elements?

55 Explain how custom elements works internally?

56 How to transfer components to custom elements?

57 What are the mapping rules between Angular component and custom element?

58 How do you define typings for custom elements?

59 What are dynamic components?

60 What are the various kinds of directives?

61 How do you create directives using CLI?

62 Give an example for attribute directives?

63 What is Angular Router?

64 What is the purpose of base href tag?

65 What are the router imports?

66 What is router outlet?

67 What are router links?

68 What are active router links?

69 What is router state?

70 What are router events?

71 What is activated route?

72 How do you define routes?

73 What is the purpose of Wildcard route?

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74 Do I need a Routing Module always?

75 What is Angular Universal?

76 What are different types of compilation in Angular?

77 What is JIT?

78 What is AOT?

79 Why do we need compilation process?

80 What are the advantages with AOT?

81 What are the ways to control AOT compilation?

82 What are the restrictions of metadata?

83 What are the two phases of AOT?

84 Can I use arrow functions in AOT?

85 What is the purpose of metadata json files?

86 Can I use any javascript feature for expression syntax in AOT?

87 What is folding?

88 What are macros?

89 Give an example of few metadata errors?

90 What is metadata rewriting?

91 How do you provide configuration inheritance?

92 How do you specify angular template compiler options?

93 How do you enable binding expression validation?

94 What is the purpose of any type cast function?

95 What is Non null type assertion operator?

96 What is type narrowing?

97 How do you describe various dependencies in angular application?

98 What is zone?

99 What is the purpose of common module?

100 What is codelyzer?

101 What is angular animation?

102 What are the steps to use animation module?

103 What is State function?

104 What is Style function?

105 What is the purpose of animate function?

106 What is transition function?

107 How to inject the dynamic script in angular?

108 What is a service worker and its role in Angular?

109 What are the design goals of service workers?

110 What are the differences between AngularJS and Angular with respect to dependency injection?

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111 What is Angular Ivy?

112 What are the features included in ivy preview?

113 Can I use AOT compilation with Ivy?

114 What is Angular Language Service?

115 How do you install angular language service in the project?

116 Is there any editor support for Angular Language Service?

117 Explain the features provided by Angular Language Service?

118 How do you add web workers in your application?

119 What are the limitations with web workers?

120 What is Angular CLI Builder?

121 What is a builder?

122 How do you invoke a builder?

123 How do you create app shell in Angular?

124 What are the case types in Angular?

125 What are the class decorators in Angular?

126 What are class field decorators?

127 What is declarable in Angular?

128 What are the restrictions on declarable classes?

129 What is a DI token?

130 What is Angular DSL?

131 What is an rxjs Subject?

132 What is Bazel tool?

133 What are the advantages of Bazel tool?

134 How do you use Bazel with Angular CLI?

135 How do you run Bazel directly?

136 What is platform in Angular?

137 What happens if I import the same module twice?

138 How do you select an element with in a component template?

139 How do you detect route change in Angular?

140 How do you pass headers for HTTP client?

141 What is the purpose of differential loading in CLI?

142 Is Angular supports dynamic imports?

143 What is lazy loading?

144 What are workspace APIs?

145 How do you upgrade angular version?

146 What is Angular Material?

147 How do you upgrade location service of angularjs?

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148 What is NgUpgrade?

149 How do you test Angular application using CLI?

150 How to use polyfills in Angular application?

151 What are the ways to trigger change detection in Angular?

152 What are the differences of various versions of Angular?

153 What are the security principles in angular?

154 What is the reason to deprecate Web Tracing Framework?

155 What is the reason to deprecate web worker packages?

156 How do you find angular CLI version?

157 What is the browser support for Angular?

158 What is schematic

159 What is rule in Schematics?

160 What is Schematics CLI?

161 What are the best practices for security in angular?

162 What is Angular security model for preventing XSS attacks?

163 What is the role of template compiler for prevention of XSS attacks?

164 What are the various security contexts in Angular?

165 What is Sanitization? Is angular supports it?

166 What is the purpose of innerHTML?

167 What is the difference between interpolated content and innerHTML?

168 How do you prevent automatic sanitization?

169 Is safe to use direct DOM API methods in terms of security?

170 What is DOM sanitizer?

171 How do you support server side XSS protection in Angular application?

172 Is angular prevents http level vulnerabilities?

173 What are Http Interceptors?

174 What are the applications of HTTP interceptors?

175 Is multiple interceptors supported in Angular?

176 How can I use interceptor for an entire application?

177 How does Angular simplifies Internationalization?

178 How do you manually register locale data?

179 What are the four phases of template translation?

180 What is the purpose of i18n attribute?

181 What is the purpose of custom id?

182 What happens if the custom id is not unique?

183 Can I translate text without creating an element?

184 How can I translate attribute?

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185 List down the pluralization categories?

186 What is select ICU expression?

187 How do you report missing translations?

188 How do you provide build configuration for multiple locales?

189 What is an angular library?

190 What is AOT compiler?

191 How do you select an element in component template?

192 What is TestBed?

193 What is protractor?

194 What is collection?

195 How do you create schematics for libraries?

196 How do you use jquery in Angular?

197 What is the reason for No provider for HTTP exception?

198 What is router state?

199 How can I use SASS in angular project?

200 What is the purpose of hidden property?

201 What is the difference between ngIf and hidden property?

202 What is slice pipe?

203 What is index property in ngFor directive?

204 What is the purpose of ngFor trackBy?

205 What is the purpose of ngSwitch directive?

206 Is it possible to do aliasing for inputs and outputs?

207 What is safe navigation operator?

208 Is any special configuration required for Angular9?

209 What are type safe TestBed API changes in Angular9?

210 Is mandatory to pass static flag for ViewChild?

211 What are the list of template expression operators?

212 What is the precedence between pipe and ternary operators??

1. What is Angular Framework?

Angular is a TypeScript-based open-source front-end platform that makes it easy to build applications with in
web/mobile/desktop. The major features of this framework such as declarative templates, dependency injection, end to
end tooling, and many more other features are used to ease the development.

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2. What is the difference between AngularJS and Angular?

Angular is a completely revived component-based framework in which an application is a tree of individual
components.

Some of the major difference in tabular form

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AngularJS Angular

It is based on MVC architecture This is based on Service/Controller

This uses use JavaScript to build the application Introduced the typescript to write the application

Based on controllers concept This is a component based UI approach

Not a mobile friendly framework Developed considering mobile platform

Difficulty in SEO friendly application development Ease to create SEO friendly applications

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3. What is TypeScript?
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript created by Microsoft that adds optional types, classes, async/await, and
many other features, and compiles to plain JavaScript. Angular built entirely in TypeScript and used as a primary
language. You can install it globally as

npm install -g typescript

Let's see a simple example of TypeScript usage,

function greeter(person: string) {

return "Hello, " + person;
}

let user = "Sudheer";

document.body.innerHTML = greeter(user);

The greeter method allows only string type as argument.

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4. Write a pictorial diagram of Angular architecture?

The main building blocks of an Angular application is shown in the below diagram 

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5. What are the key components of Angular?

Angular has the below key components,
i. Component: These are the basic building blocks of angular application to control HTML views.

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ii. Modules: An angular module is set of angular basic building blocks like component, directives, services etc. An
application is divided into logical pieces and each piece of code is called as "module" which perform a single task.
iii. Templates: This represent the views of an Angular application.
iv. Services: It is used to create components which can be shared across the entire application.
v. Metadata: This can be used to add more data to an Angular class.

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6. What are directives?

Directives add behaviour to an existing DOM element or an existing component instance.

import { Directive, ElementRef, Input } from '@angular/core';

@Directive({ selector: '[myHighlight]' })

export class HighlightDirective {
constructor(el: ElementRef) {
el.nativeElement.style.backgroundColor = 'yellow';
}
}

Now this directive extends HTML element behavior with a yellow background as below

<p myHighlight>Highlight me!</p>

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7. What are components?

Components are the most basic UI building block of an Angular app which formed a tree of Angular components.
These components are subset of directives. Unlike directives, components always have a template and only one
component can be instantiated per an element in a template. Let's see a simple example of Angular component

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component ({
selector: 'my-app',
template: ` <div>
<h1>{{title}}</h1>
<div>Learn Angular6 with examples</div>
</div> `,
})

export class AppComponent {

title: string = 'Welcome to Angular world';
}

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8. What are the differences between Component and Directive?

In a short note, A component(@component) is a directive-with-a-template.

Some of the major differences are mentioned in a tabular form

Component Directive

To register a component we use @Component meta-data To register directives we use @Directive meta-data
annotation annotation

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Component Directive

Directive is used to add behavior to an existing

Components are typically used to create UI widgets
DOM element

Component is used to break up the application into smaller

Directive is use to design re-usable components
components

Only one component can be present per DOM element Many directives can be used per DOM element

@View decorator or templateurl/template are mandatory Directive doesn't use View

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9. What is a template?
A template is a HTML view where you can display data by binding controls to properties of an Angular component. You
can store your component's template in one of two places. You can define it inline using the template property, or you
can define the template in a separate HTML file and link to it in the component metadata using the @Component
decorator's templateUrl property. Using inline template with template syntax,

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component ({
selector: 'my-app',
template: '
<div>
<h1>{{title}}</h1>
<div>Learn Angular</div>
</div>
'
})

export class AppComponent {

title: string = 'Hello World';
}

Using separate template file such as app.component.html

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component ({
selector: 'my-app',
templateUrl: 'app/app.component.html'
})

export class AppComponent {

title: string = 'Hello World';
}

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10. What is a module?

Modules are logical boundaries in your application and the application is divided into separate modules to separate the
functionality of your application. Lets take an example of app.module.ts root module declared
with @NgModuledecorator as below,

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

@NgModule ({
imports: [ BrowserModule ],

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declarations: [ AppComponent ],
bootstrap: [ AppComponent ]
})
export class AppModule { }

The NgModule decorator has three options

i. The imports option is used to import other dependent modules. The BrowserModule is required by default for any
web based angular application
ii. The declarations option is used to define components in the respective module
iii. The bootstrap option tells Angular which Component to bootstrap in the application

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11. What are lifecycle hooks available?

Angular application goes through an entire set of processes or has a lifecycle right from its initiation to the end of the

application. The representation of lifecycle in pictorial representation as follows, 

The description of each lifecycle method is as below,

i. ngOnChanges: When the value of a data bound property changes, then this method is called.
ii. ngOnInit: This is called whenever the initialization of the directive/component after Angular first displays the data-
bound properties happens.
iii. ngDoCheck: This is for the detection and to act on changes that Angular can't or won't detect on its own.
iv. ngAfterContentInit: This is called in response after Angular projects external content into the component's view.
v. ngAfterContentChecked: This is called in response after Angular checks the content projected into the
component.
vi. ngAfterViewInit: This is called in response after Angular initializes the component's views and child views.
vii. ngAfterViewChecked: This is called in response after Angular checks the component's views and child views.
viii. ngOnDestroy: This is the cleanup phase just before Angular destroys the directive/component.

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12. What is a data binding?

Data binding is a core concept in Angular and allows to define communication between a component and the DOM,
making it very easy to define interactive applications without worrying about pushing and pulling data. There are four
forms of data binding(divided as 3 categories) which differ in the way the data is flowing.
i. From the Component to the DOM: Interpolation: {{ value }}: Adds the value of a property from the component

<li>Name: {{ user.name }}</li>

<li>Address: {{ user.address }}</li>

Property binding: [property]=”value”: The value is passed from the component to the specified property or simple
HTML attribute

<input type="email" [value]="user.email">

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ii. From the DOM to the Component: Event binding: (event)=”function”: When a specific DOM event happens (eg.:
click, change, keyup), call the specified method in the component

<button (click)="logout()"></button>

iii. Two-way binding: Two-way data binding: [(ngModel)]=”value”: Two-way data binding allows to have the data
flow both ways. For example, in the below code snippet, both the email DOM input and component email property
are in sync

<input type="email" [(ngModel)]="user.email">

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13. What is metadata?

Metadata is used to decorate a class so that it can configure the expected behavior of the class. The metadata is
represented by decorators
i. Class decorators, e.g. @Component and @NgModule

import { NgModule, Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '<div>Class decorator</div>',
})
export class MyComponent {
constructor() {
console.log('Hey I am a component!');
}
}

@NgModule({
imports: [],
declarations: [],
})
export class MyModule {
constructor() {
console.log('Hey I am a module!');
}
}

ii. Property decorators Used for properties inside classes, e.g. @Input and @Output

import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '<div>Property decorator</div>'
})

export class MyComponent {

@Input()
title: string;
}

iii. Method decorators Used for methods inside classes, e.g. @HostListener

import { Component, HostListener } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '<div>Method decorator</div>'
})
export class MyComponent {

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@HostListener('click', ['$event'])
onHostClick(event: Event) {
// clicked, `event` available
}
}

iv. Parameter decorators Used for parameters inside class constructors, e.g. @Inject

import { Component, Inject } from '@angular/core';

import { MyService } from './my-service';

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '<div>Parameter decorator</div>'
})
export class MyComponent {
constructor(@Inject(MyService) myService) {
console.log(myService); // MyService
}
}

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14. What is angular CLI?

Angular CLI(Command Line Interface) is a command line interface to scaffold and build angular apps using nodejs
style (commonJs) modules. You need to install using below npm command,

npm install @angular/cli@latest

Below are the list of few commands, which will come handy while creating angular projects
i. Creating New Project: ng new
ii. Generating Components, Directives & Services: ng generate/g The different types of commands would be,
ng generate class my-new-class: add a class to your application
ng generate component my-new-component: add a component to your application
ng generate directive my-new-directive: add a directive to your application
ng generate enum my-new-enum: add an enum to your application
ng generate module my-new-module: add a module to your application
ng generate pipe my-new-pipe: add a pipe to your application
ng generate service my-new-service: add a service to your application
iii. Running the Project: ng serve

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15. What is the difference between constructor and ngOnInit?

TypeScript classes has a default method called constructor which is normally used for the initialization purpose.
Whereas ngOnInit method is specific to Angular, especially used to define Angular bindings. Even though constructor
getting called first, it is preferred to move all of your Angular bindings to ngOnInit method. In order to use ngOnInit,
you need to implement OnInit interface as below,

export class App implements OnInit{

constructor(){
//called first time before the ngOnInit()
}

ngOnInit(){
//called after the constructor and called after the first ngOnChanges()
}
}

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16. What is a service?

A service is used when a common functionality needs to be provided to various modules. Services allow for greater
separation of concerns for your application and better modularity by allowing you to extract common functionality out
of components. Let's create a repoService which can be used across components,

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

import { Http } from '@angular/http';

@Injectable({ // The Injectable decorator is required for dependency injection to work

// providedIn option registers the service with a specific NgModule
providedIn: 'root', // This declares the service with the root app (AppModule)
})
export class RepoService{
constructor(private http: Http){
}

fetchAll(){
return this.http.get('https://api.github.com/repositories');
}
}

The above service uses Http service as a dependency.

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17. What is dependency injection in Angular?

Dependency injection (DI), is an important application design pattern in which a class asks for dependencies from
external sources rather than creating them itself. Angular comes with its own dependency injection framework for
resolving dependencies( services or objects that a class needs to perform its function).So you can have your services
depend on other services throughout your application.

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18. How is Dependency Hierarchy formed?

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19. What is the purpose of async pipe?

The AsyncPipe subscribes to an observable or promise and returns the latest value it has emitted. When a new value is
emitted, the pipe marks the component to be checked for changes. Let's take a time observable which continuously
updates the view for every 2 seconds with the current time.

@Component({
selector: 'async-observable-pipe',
template: `<div><code>observable|async</code>:
Time: {{ time | async }}</div>`
})
export class AsyncObservablePipeComponent {
time = new Observable(observer =>
setInterval(() => observer.next(new Date().toString()), 2000)
);
}

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20. What is the option to choose between inline and external template file?

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You can store your component's template in one of two places. You can define it inline using the template property, or
you can define the template in a separate HTML file and link to it in the component metadata using
the @Componentdecorator's templateUrl property. The choice between inline and separate HTML is a matter of taste,
circumstances, and organization policy. But normally we use inline template for small portion of code and external
template file for bigger views. By default, the Angular CLI generates components with a template file. But you can
override that with the below command,

ng generate component hero -it

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21. What is the purpose of ngFor directive?

We use Angular ngFor directive in the template to display each item in the list. For example, here we iterate over list of
users,

<li *ngFor="let user of users">

{{ user }}
</li>

The user variable in the ngFor double-quoted instruction is a template input variable

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22. What is the purpose of ngIf directive?

Sometimes an app needs to display a view or a portion of a view only under specific circumstances. The Angular ngIf
directive inserts or removes an element based on a truthy/falsy condition. Let's take an example to display a message if
the user age is more than 18,

<p *ngIf="user.age > 18">You are not eligible for student pass!</p>

Note: Angular isn't showing and hiding the message. It is adding and removing the paragraph element from the DOM.
That improves performance, especially in the larger projects with many data bindings.

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23. What happens if you use script tag inside template?

Angular recognizes the value as unsafe and automatically sanitizes it, which removes the <script> tag but keeps safe
content such as the text content of the <script> tag. This way it eliminates the risk of script injection attacks. If you still
use it then it will be ignored and a warning appears in the browser console. Let's take an example of innerHtml
property binding which causes XSS vulnerability,

export class InnerHtmlBindingComponent {

// For example, a user/attacker-controlled value from a URL.
htmlSnippet = 'Template <script>alert("0wned")</script> <b>Syntax</b>';
}

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24. What is interpolation?

Interpolation is a special syntax that Angular converts into property binding. It’s a convenient alternative to property
binding. It is represented by double curly braces({{}}). The text between the braces is often the name of a component
property. Angular replaces that name with the string value of the corresponding component property. Let's take an
example,

<h3>
{{title}}

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<img src="{{url}}" style="height:30px">
</h3>

In the example above, Angular evaluates the title and url properties and fills in the blanks, first displaying a bold
application title and then a URL.

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25. What are template expressions?

A template expression produces a value similar to any Javascript expression. Angular executes the expression and
assigns it to a property of a binding target; the target might be an HTML element, a component, or a directive. In the
property binding, a template expression appears in quotes to the right of the = symbol as in [property]="expression".
In interpolation syntax, the template expression is surrounded by double curly braces. For example, in the below
interpolation, the template expression is {{username}},

<h3>{{username}}, welcome to Angular</h3>

The below javascript expressions are prohibited in template expression

i. assignments (=, +=, -=, ...)
ii. new
iii. chaining expressions with ; or ,
iv. increment and decrement operators (++ and --)

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26. What are template statements?

A template statement responds to an event raised by a binding target such as an element, component, or directive. The
template statements appear in quotes to the right of the = symbol like (event)="statement". Let's take an example of
button click event's statement

<button (click)="editProfile()">Edit Profile</button>

In the above expression, editProfile is a template statement. The below JavaScript syntax expressions are not allowed.
i. new
ii. increment and decrement operators, ++ and --
iii. operator assignment, such as += and -=
iv. the bitwise operators | and &
v. the template expression operators

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27. How do you categorize data binding types?

Binding types can be grouped into three categories distinguished by the direction of data flow. They are listed as
below,

i. From the source-to-view

ii. From view-to-source
iii. View-to-source-to-view

The possible binding syntax can be tabularized as below,

Data direction Syntax Type

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Data direction Syntax Type

From the source-to- 1. {{expression}} 2. [target]="expression" 3. bind- Interpolation, Property,

view(One-way) target="expression" Attribute, Class, Style

From view-to-
1. (target)="statement" 2. on-target="statement" Event
source(One-way)

View-to-source-to- 1. [(target)]="expression" 2. bindon-

Two-way
view(Two-way) target="expression"

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28. What are pipes?

A pipe takes in data as input and transforms it to a desired output. For example, let us take a pipe to transform a
component's birthday property into a human-friendly date using date pipe.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'app-birthday',
template: `<p>Birthday is {{ birthday | date }}</p>`
})
export class BirthdayComponent {
birthday = new Date(1987, 6, 18); // June 18, 1987
}

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29. What is a parameterized pipe?

A pipe can accept any number of optional parameters to fine-tune its output. The parameterized pipe can be created
by declaring the pipe name with a colon ( : ) and then the parameter value. If the pipe accepts multiple parameters,
separate the values with colons. Let's take a birthday example with a particular format(dd/MM/yyyy):

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'app-birthday',
template: `<p>Birthday is {{ birthday | date:'dd/MM/yyyy'}}</p>` // 18/06/1987
})
export class BirthdayComponent {
birthday = new Date(1987, 6, 18);
}

Note: The parameter value can be any valid template expression, such as a string literal or a component property.

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30. How do you chain pipes?

You can chain pipes together in potentially useful combinations as per the needs. Let's take a birthday property which
uses date pipe(along with parameter) and uppercase pipes as below

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'app-birthday',
template: `<p>Birthday is {{ birthday | date:'fullDate' | uppercase}} </p>` // THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 19
})
export class BirthdayComponent {
birthday = new Date(1987, 6, 18);
}

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31. What is a custom pipe?

Apart from built-inn pipes, you can write your own custom pipe with the below key characteristics,
i. A pipe is a class decorated with pipe metadata @Pipe decorator, which you import from the core Angular library
For example,

@Pipe({name: 'myCustomPipe'})

ii. The pipe class implements the PipeTransform interface's transform method that accepts an input value followed
by optional parameters and returns the transformed value. The structure of pipeTransform would be as below,

interface PipeTransform {
transform(value: any, ...args: any[]): any
}

iii. The @Pipe decorator allows you to define the pipe name that you'll use within template expressions. It must be a
valid JavaScript identifier.

template: `{{someInputValue | myCustomPipe: someOtherValue}}`

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32. Give an example of custom pipe?

You can create custom reusable pipes for the transformation of existing value. For example, let us create a custom pipe
for finding file size based on an extension,

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';

@Pipe({name: 'customFileSizePipe'})
export class FileSizePipe implements PipeTransform {
transform(size: number, extension: string = 'MB'): string {
return (size / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2) + extension;
}
}

Now you can use the above pipe in template expression as below,

template: `
<h2>Find the size of a file</h2>
<p>Size: {{288966 | customFileSizePipe: 'GB'}}</p>
`

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33. What is the difference between pure and impure pipe?

A pure pipe is only called when Angular detects a change in the value or the parameters passed to a pipe. For example,
any changes to a primitive input value (String, Number, Boolean, Symbol) or a changed object reference (Date, Array,
Function, Object). An impure pipe is called for every change detection cycle no matter whether the value or parameters
changes. i.e, An impure pipe is called often, as often as every keystroke or mouse-move.

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34. What is a bootstrapping module?

Every application has at least one Angular module, the root module that you bootstrap to launch the application is
called as bootstrapping module. It is commonly known as AppModule. The default structure of AppModule generated
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by AngularCLI would be as follows,

/* JavaScript imports */
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

/* the AppModule class with the @NgModule decorator */

@NgModule({
declarations: [
AppComponent
],
imports: [
BrowserModule,
FormsModule,
HttpClientModule
],
providers: [],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

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35. What are observables?

Observables are declarative which provide support for passing messages between publishers and subscribers in your
application. They are mainly used for event handling, asynchronous programming, and handling multiple values. In this
case, you define a function for publishing values, but it is not executed until a consumer subscribes to it. The
subscribed consumer then receives notifications until the function completes, or until they unsubscribe.

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36. What is HttpClient and its benefits?

Most of the Front-end applications communicate with backend services over HTTP protocol using either
XMLHttpRequest interface or the fetch() API. Angular provides a simplified client HTTP API known as HttpClient which
is based on top of XMLHttpRequest interface. This client is avaialble from  @angular/common/http  package. You can
import in your root module as below,

import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

The major advantages of HttpClient can be listed as below,

i. Contains testability features

ii. Provides typed request and response objects
iii. Intercept request and response
iv. Supports Observalbe APIs
v. Supports streamlined error handling

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37. Explain on how to use HttpClient with an example?

Below are the steps need to be followed for the usage of HttpClient.
i. Import HttpClient into root module:

import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

@NgModule({

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imports: [
BrowserModule,
// import HttpClientModule after BrowserModule.
HttpClientModule,
],
......
})
export class AppModule {}

ii. Inject the HttpClient into the application: Let's create a userProfileService(userprofile.service.ts) as an example. It
also defines get method of HttpClient

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';

const userProfileUrl: string = 'assets/data/profile.json';

@Injectable()
export class UserProfileService {
constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }

getUserProfile() {
return this.http.get(this.userProfileUrl);
}
}

iii. Create a component for subscribing service: Let's create a component called
UserProfileComponent(userprofile.component.ts) which inject UserProfileService and invokes the service method,

fetchUserProfile() {
this.userProfileService.getUserProfile()
.subscribe((data: User) => this.user = {
id: data['userId'],
name: data['firstName'],
city: data['city']
});
}

Since the above service method returns an Observable which needs to be subscribed in the component.

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38. How can you read full response?

The response body doesn't may not return full response data because sometimes servers also return special headers or
status code which which are important for the application workflow. Inorder to get full response, you should use
observe option from HttpClient,

getUserResponse(): Observable<HttpResponse<User>> {
return this.http.get<User>(
this.userUrl, { observe: 'response' });
}

Now HttpClient.get() method returns an Observable of typed HttpResponse rather than just the JSON data.

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39. How do you perform Error handling?

If the request fails on the server or failed to reach the server due to network issues then HttpClient will return an error
object instead of a successful reponse. In this case, you need to handle in the component by passing error object as a
second callback to subscribe() method. Let's see how it can be handled in the component with an example,

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fetchUser() {
this.userService.getProfile()
.subscribe(
(data: User) => this.userProfile = { ...data }, // success path
error => this.error = error // error path
);
}

It is always a good idea to give the user some meaningful feedback instead of displaying the raw error object returned
from HttpClient.

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40. What is RxJS?

RxJS is a library for composing asynchronous and callback-based code in a functional, reactive style using Observables.
Many APIs such as HttpClient produce and consume RxJS Observables and also uses operators for processing
observables. For example, you can import observables and operators for using HttpClient as below,

import { Observable, throwError } from 'rxjs';

import { catchError, retry } from 'rxjs/operators';

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41. What is subscribing?

An Observable instance begins publishing values only when someone subscribes to it. So you need to subscribe by
calling the subscribe() method of the instance, passing an observer object to receive the notifications. Let's take an
example of creating and subscribing to a simple observable, with an observer that logs the received message to the
console.

Creates an observable sequence of 5 integers, starting from 1

const source = range(1, 5);

// Create observer object

const myObserver = {
next: x => console.log('Observer got a next value: ' + x),
error: err => console.error('Observer got an error: ' + err),
complete: () => console.log('Observer got a complete notification'),
};

// Execute with the observer object and Prints out each item
source.subscribe(myObserver);
// => Observer got a next value: 1
// => Observer got a next value: 2
// => Observer got a next value: 3
// => Observer got a next value: 4
// => Observer got a next value: 5
// => Observer got a complete notification

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42. What is an observable?

An Observable is a unique Object similar to a Promise that can help manage async code. Observables are not part of
the JavaScript language so we need to rely on a popular Observable library called RxJS. The observables are created
using new keyword. Let see the simple example of observable,

import { Observable } from 'rxjs';

const observable = new Observable(observer => {

setTimeout(() => {
observer.next('Hello from a Observable!');
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}, 2000);
});

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43. What is an observer?

Observer is an interface for a consumer of push-based notifications delivered by an Observable. It has below structure,

interface Observer<T> {
closed?: boolean;
next: (value: T) => void;
error: (err: any) => void;
complete: () => void;
}

A handler that implements the Observer interface for receiving observable notifications will be passed as a parameter
for observable as below,

myObservable.subscribe(myObserver);

Note: If you don't supply a handler for a notification type, the observer ignores notifications of that type.

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44. What is the difference between promise and observable?

Below are the list of differences between promise and observable,

Observable Promise

Declarative: Computation does not start until subscription so that they can be run Execute immediately on
whenever you need the result creation

Provide multiple values over time Provide only one

Subscribe method is used for error handling which makes centralized and predictable error Push errors to the child
handling promises

Provides chaining and subscription to handle complex applications Uses only .then() clause

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45. What is multicasting?

Multi-casting is the practice of broadcasting to a list of multiple subscribers in a single execution. Let's demonstrate the
multi-casting feature,

var source = Rx.Observable.from([1, 2, 3]);

var subject = new Rx.Subject();
var multicasted = source.multicast(subject);

// These are, under the hood, `subject.subscribe({...})`:

multicasted.subscribe({
next: (v) => console.log('observerA: ' + v)
});
multicasted.subscribe({
next: (v) => console.log('observerB: ' + v)
});

// This is, under the hood, `s

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46. How do you perform error handling in observables?

You can handle errors by specifying an error callback on the observer instead of relying on try/catch which are
ineffective in asynchronous environment. For example, you can define error callback as below,

myObservable.subscribe({
next(num) { console.log('Next num: ' + num)},
error(err) { console.log('Received an errror: ' + err)}
});

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47. What is the short hand notation for subscribe method?

The subscribe() method can accept callback function definitions in line, for next, error, and complete handlers is known
as short hand notation or Subscribe method with positional arguments. For example, you can define subscribe method
as below,

myObservable.subscribe(
x => console.log('Observer got a next value: ' + x),
err => console.error('Observer got an error: ' + err),
() => console.log('Observer got a complete notification')
);

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48. What are the utility functions provided by RxJS?

The RxJS library also provides below utility functions for creating and working with observables.
i. Converting existing code for async operations into observables
ii. Iterating through the values in a stream
iii. Mapping values to different types
iv. Filtering streams
v. Composing multiple streams

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49. What are observable creation functions?

RxJS provides creation functions for the process of creating observables from things such as promises, events, timers
and Ajax requests. Let us explain each of them with an example,
i. Create an observable from a promise

import { from } from 'rxjs'; // from function

const data = from(fetch('/api/endpoint')); //Created from Promise
data.subscribe({
next(response) { console.log(response); },
error(err) { console.error('Error: ' + err); },
complete() { console.log('Completed'); }
});

ii. Create an observable that creates an AJAX request

import { ajax } from 'rxjs/ajax'; // ajax function

const apiData = ajax('/api/data'); // Created from AJAX request
// Subscribe to create the request
apiData.subscribe(res => console.log(res.status, res.response));

iii. Create an observable from a counter

import { interval } from 'rxjs'; // interval function

const secondsCounter = interval(1000); // Created from Counter value
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secondsCounter.subscribe(n =>
console.log(`Counter value: ${n}`));

iv. Create an observable from an event

import { fromEvent } from 'rxjs';

const el = document.getElementById('custom-element');
const mouseMoves = fromEvent(el, 'mousemove');
const subscription = mouseMoves.subscribe((e: MouseEvent) => {
console.log(`Coordnitaes of mouse pointer: ${e.clientX} * ${e.clientY}`);
});

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50. What will happen if you do not supply handler for observer?
Normally an observer object can define any combination of next, error and complete notification type handlers. If you
don't supply a handler for a notification type, the observer just ignores notifications of that type.

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51. What are angular elements?

Angular elements are Angular components packaged as custom elements(a web standard for defining new HTML
elements in a framework-agnostic way). Angular Elements hosts an Angular component, providing a bridge between
the data and logic defined in the component and standard DOM APIs, thus, providing a way to use Angular
components in  non-Angular environments .

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52. What is the browser support of Angular Elements?

Since Angular elements are packaged as custom elements the browser support of angular elements is same as custom
elements support. This feature is is currently supported natively in a number of browsers and pending for other
browsers.

Browser Angular Element Support

Chrome Natively supported

Opera Natively supported

Safari Natively supported

Natively supported from 63 version onwards. You need to enable dom.webcomponents.enabled and
Firefox
dom.webcomponents.customelements.enabled in older browsers

Edge Currently it is in progress

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53. What are custom elements?

Custom elements (or Web Components) are a Web Platform feature which extends HTML by allowing you to define a
tag whose content is created and controlled by JavaScript code. The browser maintains a  CustomElementRegistry  of
defined custom elements, which maps an instantiable JavaScript class to an HTML tag. Currently this feature is
supported by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and available in other browsers through polyfills.

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54. Do I need to bootstrap custom elements?

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No, custom elements bootstrap (or start) automatically when they are added to the DOM, and are automatically
destroyed when removed from the DOM. Once a custom element is added to the DOM for any page, it looks and
behaves like any other HTML element, and does not require any special knowledge of Angular.

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55. Explain how custom elements works internally?

Below are the steps in an order about custom elements functionality,
i. App registers custom element with browser: Use the createCustomElement() function to convert a component
into a class that can be registered with the browser as a custom element.
ii. App adds custom element to DOM: Add custom element just like a built-in HTML element directly into the DOM.
iii. Browser instantiate component based class: Browser creates an instance of the registered class and adds it to the
DOM.
iv. Instance provides content with data binding and change detection: The content with in template is rendered
using the component and DOM data. The flow chart of the custom elements functionality would be as follows, 

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56. How to transfer components to custom elements?

Transforming components to custom elements involves two major steps,
i. Build custom element class: Angular provides the  createCustomElement()  function for converting an Angular
component (along with its dependencies) to a custom element. The conversion process
implements  NgElementConstructor  interface, and creates a constructor class which is used to produce a self-
bootstrapping instance of Angular component.
ii. Register element class with browser: It uses  customElements.define()  JS function, to register the configured
constructor and its associated custom-element tag with the browser's  CustomElementRegistry . When the browser
encounters the tag for the registered element, it uses the constructor to create a custom-element instance. The

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detailed structure would be as follows, 

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57. What are the mapping rules between Angular component and custom element?
The Component properties and logic maps directly into HTML attributes and the browser's event system. Let us
describe them in two steps,
i. The createCustomElement() API parses the component input properties with corresponding attributes for the
custom element. For example, component @Input('myInputProp') converted as custom element attribute  my-
input-prop .
ii. The Component outputs are dispatched as HTML Custom Events, with the name of the custom event matching the
output name. For example, component @Output() valueChanged = new EventEmitter() converted as custom
element with dispatch event as "valueChanged".

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58. How do you define typings for custom elements?

You can use the  NgElement  and  WithProperties  types exported from @angular/elements. Let's see how it can be
applied by comparing with Angular component, The simple container with input property would be as below,

@Component(...)
class MyContainer {
@Input() message: string;
}

After applying types typescript validates input value and their types,

const container = document.createElement('my-container') as NgElement & WithProperties<{message: string}>;

container.message = 'Welcome to Angular elements!';
container.message = true; // <-- ERROR: TypeScript knows this should be a string.
container.greet = 'News'; // <-- ERROR: TypeScript knows there is no `greet` property on `container`.

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59. What are dynamic components?

Dynamic components are the components in which components location in the application is not defined at build
time.i.e, They are not used in any angular template. But the component is instantiated and placed in the application at
runtime.

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60. What are the various kinds of directives?

There are mainly three kinds of directives.
i. Components — These are directives with a template.
ii. Structural directives — These directives change the DOM layout by adding and removing DOM elements.
iii. Attribute directives — These directives change the appearance or behavior of an element, component, or another
directive.

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61. How do you create directives using CLI?

You can use CLI command  ng generate directive  to create the directive class file. It creates the source
file(src/app/components/directivename.directive.ts), the respective test file(.spec.ts) and declare the directive class file
in root module.

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62. Give an example for attribute directives?

Let's take simple highlighter behavior as a example directive for DOM element. You can create and apply the attribute
directive using below steps,
i. Create HighlightDirective class with the file name  src/app/highlight.directive.ts . In this file, we need to
import Directive from core library to apply the metadata and ElementRef in the directive's constructor to inject a
reference to the host DOM element ,

import { Directive, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';

@Directive({
selector: '[appHighlight]'
})
export class HighlightDirective {
constructor(el: ElementRef) {
el.nativeElement.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
}
}

ii. Apply the attribute directive as an attribute to the host element(for example,

<p appHighlight>Highlight me!</p>

iii. Run the application to see the highlight behavior on paragraph element

ng serve

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63. What is Angular Router?

Angular Router is a mechanism in which navigation happens from one view to the next as users perform application
tasks. It borrows the concepts or model of browser's application navigation.

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64. What is the purpose of base href tag?

The routing application should add element to the index.html as the first child in the tag inorder to indicate how to
compose navigation URLs. If app folder is the application root then you can set the href value as below

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<base href="/">

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65. What are the router imports?

The Angular Router which represents a particular component view for a given URL is not part of Angular Core. It is
available in library named  @angular/router  to import required router components. For example, we import them in
app module as below,

import { RouterModule, Routes } from '@angular/router';

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66. What is router outlet?

The RouterOutlet is a directive from the router library and it acts as a placeholder that marks the spot in the template
where the router should display the components for that outlet. Router outlet is used like a component,

<router-outlet></router-outlet>
<!-- Routed components go here -->

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67. What are router links?

The RouterLink is a directive on the anchor tags give the router control over those elements. Since the navigation paths
are fixed, you can assign string values to router-link directive as below,

<h1>Angular Router</h1>
<nav>
<a routerLink="/todosList" >List of todos</a>
<a routerLink="/completed" >Completed todos</a>
</nav>
<router-outlet></router-outlet>

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68. What are active router links?

RouterLinkActive is a directive that toggles css classes for active RouterLink bindings based on the current RouterState.
i.e, the Router will add CSS classes when this link is active and and remove when the link is inactive. For example, you
can add them to RouterLinks as below

<h1>Angular Router</h1>
<nav>
<a routerLink="/todosList" routerLinkActive="active">List of todos</a>
<a routerLink="/completed" routerLinkActive="active">Completed todos</a>
</nav>
<router-outlet></router-outlet>

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69. What is router state?

RouterState is a tree of activated routes. Every node in this tree knows about the "consumed" URL segments, the
extracted parameters, and the resolved data. You can access the current RouterState from anywhere in the application
using the  Router service  and the  routerState  property.

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@Component({templateUrl:'template.html'})
class MyComponent {
constructor(router: Router) {
const state: RouterState = router.routerState;
const root: ActivatedRoute = state.root;
const child = root.firstChild;
const id: Observable<string> = child.params.map(p => p.id);
//...
}
}

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70. What are router events?

During each navigation, the Router emits navigation events through the Router.events property allowing you to track
the lifecycle of the route. The sequence of router events is as below,
i. NavigationStart,
ii. RouteConfigLoadStart,
iii. RouteConfigLoadEnd,
iv. RoutesRecognized,
v. GuardsCheckStart,
vi. ChildActivationStart,
vii. ActivationStart,
viii. GuardsCheckEnd,
ix. ResolveStart,
x. ResolveEnd,
xi. ActivationEnd
xii. ChildActivationEnd
xiii. NavigationEnd,
xiv. NavigationCancel,
xv. NavigationError
xvi. Scroll

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71. What is activated route?

ActivatedRoute contains the information about a route associated with a component loaded in an outlet. It can also be
used to traverse the router state tree. The ActivatedRoute will be injected as a router service to access the information.
In the below example, you can access route path and parameters,

@Component({...})
class MyComponent {
constructor(route: ActivatedRoute) {
const id: Observable<string> = route.params.pipe(map(p => p.id));
const url: Observable<string> = route.url.pipe(map(segments => segments.join('')));
// route.data includes both `data` and `resolve`
const user = route.data.pipe(map(d => d.user));
}
}

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72. How do you define routes?

A router must be configured with a list of route definitions. You configures the router with routes via
the  RouterModule.forRoot()  method, and adds the result to the AppModule's  imports  array.

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const appRoutes: Routes = [

{ path: 'todo/:id', component: TodoDetailComponent },
{
path: 'todos',
component: TodosListComponent,
data: { title: 'Todos List' }
},
{ path: '',
redirectTo: '/todos',
pathMatch: 'full'
},
{ path: '**', component: PageNotFoundComponent }
];

@NgModule({
imports: [
RouterModule.forRoot(
appRoutes,
{ enableTracing: true } // <-- debugging purposes only
)
// other imports here
],
...
})
export class AppModule { }

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73. What is the purpose of Wildcard route?

If the URL doesn't match any predefined routes then it causes the router to throw an error and crash the app. In this
case, you can use wildcard route. A wildcard route has a path consisting of two asterisks to match every URL. For
example, you can define PageNotFoundComponent for wildcard route as below

{ path: '**', component: PageNotFoundComponent }

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74. Do I need a Routing Module always?

No, the Routing Module is a design choice. You can skip routing Module (for example, AppRoutingModule) when the
configuration is simple and merge the routing configuration directly into the companion module (for example,
AppModule). But it is recommended when the configuration is complex and includes specialized guard and resolver
services.

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75. What is Angular Universal?

Angular Universal is a server-side rendering module for Angular applications in various scenarios. This is a community
driven project and available under @angular/platform-server package. Recently Angular Universal is integrated with
Angular CLI.

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76. What are different types of compilation in Angular?

Angular offers two ways to compile your application,
i. Just-in-Time (JIT)
ii. Ahead-of-Time (AOT)

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77. What is JIT?

Just-in-Time (JIT) is a type of compilation that compiles your app in the browser at runtime. JIT compilation is the
default when you run the ng build (build only) or ng serve (build and serve locally) CLI commands. i.e, the below
commands used for JIT compilation,

ng build
ng serve

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78. What is AOT?

Ahead-of-Time (AOT) is a type of compilation that compiles your app at build time. For AOT compilation, include the  -
-aot  option with the ng build or ng serve command as below,

ng build --aot
ng serve --aot

Note: The ng build command with the --prod meta-flag ( ng build --prod ) compiles with AOT by default.

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79. Why do we need compilation process?

The Angular components and templates cannot be understood by the browser directly. Due to that Angular
applications require a compilation process before they can run in a browser. For example, In AOT compilation, both
Angular HTML and TypeScript code converted into efficient JavaScript code during the build phase before browser runs
it.

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80. What are the advantages with AOT?

Below are the list of AOT benefits,
i. Faster rendering: The browser downloads a pre-compiled version of the application. So it can render the
application immediately without compiling the app.
ii. Fewer asynchronous requests: It inlines external HTML templates and CSS style sheets within the application
javascript which eliminates separate ajax requests.
iii. Smaller Angular framework download size: Doesn't require downloading the Angular compiler. Hence it
dramatically reduces the application payload.
iv. Detect template errors earlier: Detects and reports template binding errors during the build step itself
v. Better security: It compiles HTML templates and components into JavaScript. So there won't be any injection
attacks.

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81. What are the ways to control AOT compilation?

You can control your app compilation in two ways
i. By providing template compiler options in the  tsconfig.json  file
ii. By configuring Angular metadata with decorators

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82. What are the restrictions of metadata?

In Angular, You must write metadata with the following general constraints,
i. Write expression syntax with in the supported range of javascript features
ii. The compiler can only reference symbols which are exported

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iii. Only call the functions supported by the compiler

iv. Decorated and data-bound class members must be public.

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83. What are the two phases of AOT?

The AOT compiler works in three phases,
i. Code Analysis: The compiler records a representation of the source
ii. Code generation: It handles the interpretation as well as places restrictions on what it interprets.
iii. Validation: In this phase, the Angular template compiler uses the TypeScript compiler to validate the binding
expressions in templates.

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84. Can I use arrow functions in AOT?

No, Arrow functions or lambda functions can’t be used to assign values to the decorator properties. For example, the
following snippet is invalid:

@Component({
providers: [{
provide: MyService, useFactory: () => getService()
}]
})

To fix this, it has to be changed as following exported function:

function getService(){
return new MyService();
}

@Component({
providers: [{
provide: MyService, useFactory: getService
}]
})

If you still use arrow function, it generates an error node in place of the function. When the compiler later interprets
this node, it reports an error to turn the arrow function into an exported function. Note: From Angular5 onwards, the
compiler automatically performs this rewriting while emitting the .js file.

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85. What is the purpose of metadata json files?

The metadata.json file can be treated as a diagram of the overall structure of a decorator's metadata, represented as an
abstract syntax tree(AST). During the analysis phase, the AOT collector scan the metadata recorded in the Angular
decorators and outputs metadata information in .metadata.json files, one per .d.ts file.

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86. Can I use any javascript feature for expression syntax in AOT?
No, the AOT collector understands a subset of (or limited) JavaScript features. If an expression uses unsupported
syntax, the collector writes an error node to the .metadata.json file. Later point of time, the compiler reports an error if
it needs that piece of metadata to generate the application code.

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87. What is folding?

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The compiler can only resolve references to exported symbols in the metadata. Where as some of the non-exported
members are folded while generating the code. i.e Folding is a process in which the collector evaluate an expression
during collection and record the result in the .metadata.json instead of the original expression. For example, the
compiler couldn't refer selector reference because it is not exported

let selector = 'app-root';

@Component({
selector: selector
})

Will be folded into inline selector

@Component({
selector: 'app-root'
})

Remember that the compiler can’t fold everything. For example, spread operator on arrays, objects created using new
keywords and function calls.

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88. What are macros?

The AOT compiler supports macros in the form of functions or static methods that return an expression in a  single
return expression . For example, let us take a below macro function,

export function wrapInArray<T>(value: T): T[] {

return [value];
}

You can use it inside metadata as an expression,

@NgModule({
declarations: wrapInArray(TypicalComponent)
})
export class TypicalModule {}

The compiler treats the macro expression as it written directly

@NgModule({
declarations: [TypicalComponent]
})
export class TypicalModule {}

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89. Give an example of few metadata errors?

Below are some of the errors encountered in metadata,
i. Expression form not supported: Some of the language features outside of the compiler's restricted expression
syntax used in angular metadata can produce this error. Let's see some of these examples,

1. export class User { ... }

const prop = typeof User; // typeof is not valid in metadata
2. { provide: 'token', useValue: { [prop]: 'value' } }; // bracket notation is not valid in metadata

ii. ** Reference to a local (non-exported) symbol:** The compiler encountered a referenced to a locally defined
symbol that either wasn't exported or wasn't initialized. Let's take example of this error,

// ERROR
let username: string; // neither exported nor initialized

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@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: ... ,
providers: [
{ provide: User, useValue: username }
]
})
export class MyComponent {}

You can fix this by either exporting or initializing the value,

export let username: string; // exported

(or)
let username = 'John'; // initialized

iii. Function calls are not supported: The compiler does not currently support function expressions or lambda
functions. For example, you cannot set a provider's useFactory to an anonymous function or arrow function as
below.

providers: [
{ provide: MyStrategy, useFactory: function() { ... } },
{ provide: OtherStrategy, useFactory: () => { ... } }
]

You can fix this with exported function

export function myStrategy() { ... }

export function otherStrategy() { ... }
... // metadata
providers: [
{ provide: MyStrategy, useFactory: myStrategy },
{ provide: OtherStrategy, useFactory: otherStrategy },

iv. Destructured variable or constant not supported: The compiler does not support references to variables assigned
by destructuring. For example, you cannot write something like this:

import { user } from './user';

// destructured assignment to name and age

const {name, age} = user;
... //metadata
providers: [
{provide: Name, useValue: name},
{provide: Age, useValue: age},
]

You can fix this by non-destructured values

import { user } from './user';

... //metadata
providers: [
{provide: Name, useValue: user.name},
{provide: Age, useValue: user.age},
]

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90. What is metadata rewriting?

Metadata rewriting is the process in which the compiler converts the expression initializing the fields such as useClass,
useValue, useFactory, and data into an exported variable, which replaces the expression. Remember that the compiler
does this rewriting during the emit of the .js file but not in definition files( .d.ts file).

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91. How do you provide configuration inheritance?

Angular Compiler supports configuration inheritance through extends in the tsconfig.json on angularCompilerOptions.
i.e, The configuration from the base file(for example, tsconfig.base.json) are loaded first, then overridden by those in
the inheriting config file.

{
"extends": "../tsconfig.base.json",
"compilerOptions": {
"experimentalDecorators": true,
...
},
"angularCompilerOptions": {
"fullTemplateTypeCheck": true,
"preserveWhitespaces": true,
...
}
}

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92. How do you specify angular template compiler options?

The angular template compiler options are specified as members of the angularCompilerOptions object in the
tsconfig.json file. These options will be specified adjecent to typescript compiler options.

{
"compilerOptions": {
"experimentalDecorators": true,
...
},
"angularCompilerOptions": {
"fullTemplateTypeCheck": true,
"preserveWhitespaces": true,
...
}
}

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93. How do you enable binding expression validation?

You can enable binding expression validation explicitly by adding the compiler option fullTemplateTypeCheck in the
"angularCompilerOptions" of the project's tsconfig.json. It produces error messages when a type error is detected in a
template binding expression. For example, consider the following component:

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '{{user.contacts.email}}'
})
class MyComponent {
user?: User;
}

This will produce the following error:

my.component.ts.MyComponent.html(1,1): : Property 'contacts' does not exist on type 'User'. Did you mean 'conta

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94. What is the purpose of any type cast function?

You can disable binding expression type checking using $any() type cast function(by surrounding the expression). In the
following example, the error Property contacts does not exist is suppressed by casting user to the any type.

template: '{{$any(user).contacts.email}}'

The $any() cast function also works with this to allow access to undeclared members of the component.

template: '{{$any(this).contacts.email}}'

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95. What is Non null type assertion operator?

You can use the non-null type assertion operator to suppress the Object is possibly 'undefined' error. In the following
example, the user and contact properties are always set together, implying that contact is always non-null if user is
non-null. The error is suppressed in the example by using contact!.email.

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '<span *ngIf="user"> {{user.name}} contacted through {{contact!.email}} </span>'
})
class MyComponent {
user?: User;
contact?: Contact;

setData(user: User, contact: Contact) {

this.user = user;
this.contact = contact;
}
}

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96. What is type narrowing?

The expression used in an ngIf directive is used to narrow type unions in the Angular template compiler similar to if
expression in typescript. So *ngIf allows the typeScript compiler to infer that the data used in the binding expression
will never be undefined.

@Component({
selector: 'my-component',
template: '<span *ngIf="user"> {{user.contact.email}} </span>'
})
class MyComponent {
user?: User;
}

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97. How do you describe various dependencies in angular application?

The dependencies section of package.json with in an angular application can be divided as follow,
i. Angular packages: Angular core and optional modules; their package names begin @angular/.
ii. Support packages: Third-party libraries that must be present for Angular apps to run.
iii. Polyfill packages: Polyfills plug gaps in a browser's JavaScript implementation.

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98. What is zone?

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A Zone is an execution context that persists across async tasks. Angular relies on zone.js to run Angular's change
detection processes when native JavaScript operations raise events

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99. What is the purpose of common module?

The commonly-needed services, pipes, and directives provided by @angular/common module. Apart from these
HttpClientModule is available under @angular/common/http.

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100. What is codelyzer?

Codelyzer provides set of tslint rules for static code analysis of Angular TypeScript projects. ou can run the static code
analyzer over web apps, NativeScript, Ionic etc. Angular CLI has support for this and it can be use as below,

ng new codelyzer
ng lint

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101. What is angular animation?

Angular's animation system is built on CSS functionality in order to animate any property that the browser considers
animatable. These properties includes positions, sizes, transforms, colors, borders etc. The Angular modules for
animations are @angular/animations and @angular/platform-browser and these dependencies are automatically
added to your project when you create a project using Angular CLI.

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102. What are the steps to use animation module?

You need to follow below steps to implement animation in your angular project,

i. Enabling the animations module: Import BrowserAnimationsModule to add animation capabilities into your
Angular root application module(for example, src/app/app.module.ts).

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

@NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule,
BrowserAnimationsModule
],
declarations: [ ],
bootstrap: [ ]
})
export class AppModule { }

ii. Importing animation functions into component files: Import required animation functions from
@angular/animations in component files(for example, src/app/app.component.ts).

import {
trigger,
state,
style,
animate,
transition,
// ...
} from '@angular/animations';

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iii. Adding the animation metadata property: add a metadata property called animations: within the @Component()
decorator in component files(for example, src/app/app.component.ts)

@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: 'app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['app.component.css'],
animations: [
// animation triggers go here
]
})

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103. What is State function?

Angular's state() function is used to define different states to call at the end of each transition. This function takes two
arguments: a unique name like open or closed and a style() function. For example, you can write a open state function

state('open', style({
height: '300px',
opacity: 0.5,
backgroundColor: 'blue'
})),

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104. What is Style function?

The style function is used to define a set of styles to associate with a given state name. You need to use it along with
state() function to set CSS style attributes. For example, in the close state, the button has a height of 100 pixels, an
opacity of 0.8, and a background color of green.

state('close', style({
height: '100px',
opacity: 0.8,
backgroundColor: 'green'
})),

Note: The style attributes must be in camelCase.

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105. What is the purpose of animate function?

Angular Animations are a powerful way to implement sophisticated and compelling animations for your Angular single
page web application.

import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';

import { trigger, state, style, animate, transition } from '@angular/animations';

@Component({
selector: 'app-animate',
templateUrl: `<div [@changeState]="currentState" class="myblock mx-auto"></div>`,
styleUrls: `.myblock {
background-color: green;
width: 300px;
height: 250px;
border-radius: 5px;
margin: 5rem;
}`,
animations: [
trigger('changeState', [

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state('state1', style({
backgroundColor: 'green',
transform: 'scale(1)'
})),
state('state2', style({
backgroundColor: 'red',
transform: 'scale(1.5)'
})),
transition('*=>state1', animate('300ms')),
transition('*=>state2', animate('2000ms'))
])
]
})
export class AnimateComponent implements OnInit {

@Input() currentState;

constructor() { }

ngOnInit() {
}
}

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106. What is transition function?

The animation transition function is used to specify the changes that occur between one state and another over a
period of time. It accepts two arguments: the first argument accepts an expression that defines the direction between
two transition states, and the second argument accepts an animate() function. Let's take an example state transition
from open to closed with an half second transition between states.

transition('open => closed', [

animate('500ms')
]),

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107. How to inject the dynamic script in angular?

Using DomSanitizer we can inject the dynamic Html,Style,Script,Url.

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

import { DomSanitizer } from '@angular/platform-browser';
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template: `
<div [innerHtml]="htmlSnippet"></div>
`,
})
export class App {
constructor(protected sanitizer: DomSanitizer) {}
htmlSnippet: string = this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustScript("<script>safeCode()</script>");
}

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108. What is a service worker and its role in Angular?

A service worker is a script that runs in the web browser and manages caching for an application. Starting from 5.0.0
version, Angular ships with a service worker implementation. Angular service worker is designed to optimize the end

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user experience of using an application over a slow or unreliable network connection, while also minimizing the risks of
serving outdated content.

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109. What are the design goals of service workers?

Below are the list of design goals of Angular's service workers,
i. It caches an application just like installing a native application
ii. A running application continues to run with the same version of all files without any incompatible files
iii. When you refresh the application, it loads the latest fully cached version
iv. When changes are published then it immediately updates in the background
v. Service workers saves the bandwidth by downloading the resources only when they changed.

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110. What are the differences between AngularJS and Angular with respect to dependency
injection?
Dependency injection is a common component in both AngularJS and Angular, but there are some key differences
between the two frameworks in how it actually works. | AngularJS | Angular | |---- | --------- | Dependency injection
tokens are always strings | Tokens can have different types. They are often classes and sometimes can be strings. | |
There is exactly one injector even though it is a multi-module applications | There is a tree hierarchy of injectors, with a
root injector and an additional injector for each component. |

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111. What is Angular Ivy?

Angular Ivy is a new rendering engine for Angular. You can choose to opt in a preview version of Ivy from Angular
version 8.

i. You can enable ivy in a new project by using the --enable-ivy flag with the ng new command

ng new ivy-demo-app --enable-ivy

ii. You can add it to an existing project by adding  enableIvy  option in the  angularCompilerOptions  in your
project's  tsconfig.app.json .

{
"compilerOptions": { ... },
"angularCompilerOptions": {
"enableIvy": true
}
}

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112. What are the features included in ivy preview?

You can expect below features with Ivy preview,
i. Generated code that is easier to read and debug at runtime
ii. Faster re-build time
iii. Improved payload size
iv. Improved template type checking

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113. Can I use AOT compilation with Ivy?

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Yes, it is a recommended configuration. Also, AOT compilation with Ivy is faster. So you need set the default build
options(with in angular.json) for your project to always use AOT compilation.

{
"projects": {
"my-project": {
"architect": {
"build": {
"options": {
...
"aot": true,
}
}
}
}
}
}

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114. What is Angular Language Service?

The Angular Language Service is a way to get completions, errors, hints, and navigation inside your Angular templates
whether they are external in an HTML file or embedded in annotations/decorators in a string. It has the ability to
autodetect that you are opening an Angular file, reads your  tsconfig.json  file, finds all the templates you have in your
application, and then provides all the language services.

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115. How do you install angular language service in the project?

You can install Angular Language Service in your project with the following npm command

npm install --save-dev @angular/language-service

After that add the following to the "compilerOptions" section of your project's tsconfig.json

"plugins": [
{"name": "@angular/language-service"}
]

Note: The completion and diagnostic services works for .ts files only. You need to use custom plugins for supporting
HTML files.

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116. Is there any editor support for Angular Language Service?

Yes, Angular Language Service is currently available for Visual Studio Code and WebStorm IDEs. You need to install
angular language service using an extension and devDependency respectively. In sublime editor, you need to install
typescript which has has a language service plugin model.

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117. Explain the features provided by Angular Language Service?

Basically there are 3 main features provided by Angular Language Service,

i. Autocompletion: Autocompletion can speed up your development time by providing you with contextual
possibilities and hints as you type with in an interpolation and elements.

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ii. Error checking: It can also warn you of mistakes in your code.

iii. Navigation: Navigation allows you to hover a component, directive, module and then click and press F12 to go
directly to its definition.

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118. How do you add web workers in your application?

You can add web worker anywhere in your application. For example, If the file that contains your expensive
computation is  src/app/app.component.ts , you can add a Web Worker using  ng generate web-worker app  command
which will create  src/app/app.worker.ts  web worker file. This command will perform below actions,
i. Configure your project to use Web Workers
ii. Adds app.worker.ts to receive messages

addEventListener('message', ({ data }) => {

const response = `worker response to ${data}`;
postMessage(response);
});

iii. The component  app.component.ts  file updated with web worker file

if (typeof Worker !== 'undefined') {

// Create a new
const worker = new Worker('./app.worker', { type: 'module' });
worker.onmessage = ({ data }) => {
console.log('page got message: $\{data\}');
};
worker.postMessage('hello');
} else {
// Web Workers are not supported in this environment.
}

Note: You may need to refactor your initial scaffolding web worker code for sending messages to and from.

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119. What are the limitations with web workers?

You need to remember two important things when using Web Workers in Angular projects,
i. Some environments or platforms(like @angular/platform-server) used in Server-side Rendering, don't support Web
Workers. In this case you need to provide a fallback mechanism to perform the computations to work in this
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environments.
ii. Running Angular in web worker using  @angular/platform-webworker  is not yet supported in Angular CLI.

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120. What is Angular CLI Builder?

In Angular8, the CLI Builder API is stable and available to developers who want to customize the  Angular CLI  by
adding or modifying commands. For example, you could supply a builder to perform an entirely new task, or to change
which third-party tool is used by an existing command.

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121. What is a builder?

A builder function ia a function that uses the  Architect API  to perform a complex process such as "build" or "test".
The builder code is defined in an npm package. For example, BrowserBuilder runs a webpack build for a browser target
and KarmaBuilder starts the Karma server and runs a webpack build for unit tests.

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122. How do you invoke a builder?

The Angular CLI command  ng run  is used to invoke a builder with a specific target configuration. The workspace
configuration file,  angular.json , contains default configurations for built-in builders.

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123. How do you create app shell in Angular?

An App shell is a way to render a portion of your application via a route at build time. This is useful to first paint of your
application that appears quickly because the browser can render static HTML and CSS without the need to initialize
JavaScript. You can achieve this using Angular CLI which generates an app shell for running server-side of your app.

ng generate appShell [options] (or)

ng g appShell [options]

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124. What are the case types in Angular?

Angular uses capitalization conventions to distinguish the names of various types. Angular follows the list of the below
case types.
i. camelCase : Symbols, properties, methods, pipe names, non-component directive selectors, constants uses
lowercase on the first letter of the item. For example, "selectedUser"
ii. UpperCamelCase (or PascalCase): Class names, including classes that define components, interfaces, NgModules,
directives, and pipes uses uppercase on the first letter of the item.
iii. dash-case (or "kebab-case"): The descriptive part of file names, component selectors uses dashes between the
words. For example, "app-user-list".
iv. UPPER_UNDERSCORE_CASE: All constants uses capital letters connected with underscores. For example,
"NUMBER_OF_USERS".

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125. What are the class decorators in Angular?

A class decorator is a decorator that appears immediately before a class definition, which declares the class to be of the
given type, and provides metadata suitable to the type The following list of decorators comes under class decorators,
i. @Component()
ii. @Directive()
iii. @Pipe()
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iv. @Injectable()
v. @NgModule()

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126. What are class field decorators?

The class field decorators are the statements declared immediately before a field in a class definition that defines the
type of that field. Some of the examples are: @input and @output,

@Input() myProperty;
@Output() myEvent = new EventEmitter();

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127. What is declarable in Angular?

Declarable is a class type that you can add to the declarations list of an NgModule. The class types such as
components, directives, and pipes comes can be declared in the module.

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128. What are the restrictions on declarable classes?

Below classes shouldn't be declared,
i. A class that's already declared in another NgModule
ii. Ngmodule classes
iii. Service classes
iv. Helper classes

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129. What is a DI token?

A DI token is a lookup token associated with a dependency provider in dependency injection system. The injector
maintains an internal token-provider map that it references when asked for a dependency and the DI token is the key
to the map. Let's take example of DI Token usage,

const BASE_URL = new InjectionToken<string>('BaseUrl');

const injector =
Injector.create({providers: [{provide: BASE_URL, useValue: 'http://some-domain.com'}]});
const url = injector.get(BASE_URL);

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130. What is Angular DSL?

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain. Angular has
its own Domain Specific Language (DSL) which allows us to write Angular specific html-like syntax on top of normal
html. It has its own compiler that compiles this syntax to html that the browser can understand. This DSL is defined in
NgModules such as animations, forms, and routing and navigation. Basically you will see 3 main syntax in Angular DSL.
i. () : Used for Output and DOM events.
ii. [] : Used for Input and specific DOM element attributes.
iii. * : Structural directives(*ngFor or *ngIf) will affect/change the DOM structure.

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131. what is an rxjs subject in Angular

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An RxJS Subject is a special type of Observable that allows values to be multicasted to many Observers. While plain
Observables are unicast (each subscribed Observer owns an independent execution of the Observable), Subjects are
multicast.

A Subject is like an Observable, but can multicast to many Observers. Subjects are like EventEmitters: they maintain a
registry of many listeners.

import { Subject } from 'rxjs';

const subject = new Subject<number>();

subject.subscribe({
next: (v) => console.log(`observerA: ${v}`)
});
subject.subscribe({
next: (v) => console.log(`observerB: ${v}`)
});

subject.next(1);
subject.next(2);

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132. What is Bazel tool?

Bazel is a powerful build tool developed and massively used by Google and it can keep track of the dependencies
between different packages and build targets. In Angular8, you can build your CLI application with Bazel. Note: The
Angular framework itself is built with Bazel.

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133. What are the advantages of Bazel tool?

Below are the list of key advantages of Bazel tool,
i. It creates the possibility of building your back-ends and front-ends with the same tool
ii. The incremental build and tests
iii. It creates the possibility to have remote builds and cache on a build farm.

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134. How do you use Bazel with Angular CLI?

The @angular/bazel package provides a builder that allows Angular CLI to use Bazel as the build tool.
i. Use in an existing applciation: Add @angular/bazel using CLI

ng add @angular/bazel

ii. Use in a new application: Install the package and create the application with collection option

npm install -g @angular/bazel

ng new --collection=@angular/bazel

When you use ng build and ng serve commands, Bazel is used behind the scenes and outputs the results in dist/bin
folder.

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135. How do you run Bazel directly?

Sometimes you may want to bypass the Angular CLI builder and run Bazel directly using Bazel CLI. You can install it
globally using @bazel/bazel npm package. i.e, Bazel CLI is available under @bazel/bazel package. After you can apply

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the below common commands,

bazel build [targets] // Compile the default output artifacts of the given targets.
bazel test [targets] // Run the tests with *_test targets found in the pattern.
bazel run [target]: Compile the program represented by target and then run it.

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136. What is platform in Angular?

A platform is the context in which an Angular application runs. The most common platform for Angular applications is a
web browser, but it can also be an operating system for a mobile device, or a web server. The runtime-platform is
provided by the @angular/platform-* packages and these packages allow applications that make use
of  @angular/core and  @angular/common  to execute in different environments. i.e, Angular can be used as platform-
independent framework in different environments, For example,
i. While running in the browser, it uses  platform-browser  package.
ii. When SSR(server-side rendering ) is used, it uses  platform-server  package for providing web server
implementation.

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137. What happens if I import the same module twice?

If multiple modules imports the same module then angular evaluates it only once (When it encounters the module first
time). It follows this condition even the module appears at any level in a hierarchy of imported NgModules.

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138. How do you select an element with in a component template?

You can use  @ViewChild  directive to access elements in the view directly. Let's take input element with a reference,

<input #uname>

and define view child directive and access it in ngAfterViewInit lifecycle hook

@ViewChild('uname') input;

ngAfterViewInit() {
console.log(this.input.nativeElement.value);
}

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139. How do you detect route change in Angular?

In Angular7, you can subscribe to router to detect the changes. The subscription for router events would be as below,

this.router.events.subscribe((event: Event) => {})

Let's take a simple component to detect router changes

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

import { Router, Event, NavigationStart, NavigationEnd, NavigationError } from '@angular/router';

@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
template: `<router-outlet></router-outlet>`
})
export class AppComponent {

constructor(private router: Router) {

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this.router.events.subscribe((event: Event) => {

if (event instanceof NavigationStart) {
// Show loading indicator and perform an action
}

if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {

// Hide loading indicator and perform an action
}

if (event instanceof NavigationError) {

// Hide loading indicator and perform an action
console.log(event.error); // It logs an error for debugging
}
});
}
}

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140. How do you pass headers for HTTP client?

You can directly pass object map for http client or create HttpHeaders class to supply the headers.

constructor(private _http: HttpClient) {}

this._http.get('someUrl',{
headers: {'header1':'value1','header2':'value2'}
});

(or)
let headers = new HttpHeaders().set('header1', headerValue1); // create header object
headers = headers.append('header2', headerValue2); // add a new header, creating a new object
headers = headers.append('header3', headerValue3); // add another header

let params = new HttpParams().set('param1', value1); // create params object

params = params.append('param2', value2); // add a new param, creating a new object
params = params.append('param3', value3); // add another param

return this._http.get<any[]>('someUrl', { headers: headers, params: params })

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141. What is the purpose of differential loading in CLI?

From Angular8 release onwards, the applications are built using differential loading strategy from CLI to build two
separate bundles as part of your deployed application.

i. The first build contains ES2015 syntax which takes the advantage of built-in support in modern browsers, ships less
polyfills, and results in a smaller bundle size.
ii. The second build contains old ES5 syntax to support older browsers with all necessary polyfills. But this results in a
larger bundle size.

Note: This strategy is used to support multiple browsers but it only load the code that the browser needs.

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142. Is Angular supports dynamic imports?

Yes, Angular 8 supports dynamic imports in router configuration. i.e, You can use the import statement for lazy loading
the module using  loadChildren  method and it will be understood by the IDEs(VSCode and WebStorm), webpack, etc.
Previously, you have been written as below to lazily load the feature module. By mistake, if you have typo in the
module name it still accepts the string and throws an error during build time.

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{path: ‘user’, loadChildren: ‘./users/user.module#UserModulee’},

This problem is resolved by using dynamic imports and IDEs are able to find it during compile time itself.

{path: ‘user’, loadChildren: () => import(‘./users/user.module’).then(m => m.UserModule)};

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143. What is lazy loading?

Lazy loading is one of the most useful concepts of Angular Routing. It helps us to download the web pages in chunks
instead of downloading everything in a big bundle. It is used for lazy loading by asynchronously loading the feature
module for routing whenever required using the property  loadChildren . Let's load both  Customer  and  Order  feature
modules lazily as below,

const routes: Routes = [

{
path: 'customers',
loadChildren: () => import('./customers/customers.module').then(module => module.CustomersModule)
},
{
path: 'orders',
loadChildren: () => import('./orders/orders.module').then(module => module.OrdersModule)
},
{
path: '',
redirectTo: '',
pathMatch: 'full'
}
];

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144. What are workspace APIs?

Angular 8.0 release introduces Workspace APIs to make it easier for developers to read and modify the angular.json file
instead of manually modifying it. Currently, the only supported storage3 format is the JSON-based format used by the
Angular CLI. You can enable or add optimization option for build target as below,

import { NodeJsSyncHost } from '@angular-devkit/core/node';

import { workspaces } from '@angular-devkit/core';

async function addBuildTargetOption() {

const host = workspaces.createWorkspaceHost(new NodeJsSyncHost());
const workspace = await workspaces.readWorkspace('path/to/workspace/directory/', host);

const project = workspace.projects.get('my-app');

if (!project) {
throw new Error('my-app does not exist');
}

const buildTarget = project.targets.get('build');

if (!buildTarget) {
throw new Error('build target does not exist');
}

buildTarget.options.optimization = true;

await workspaces.writeWorkspace(workspace, host);

}

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addBuildTargetOption();

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145. How do you upgrade angular version?

The Angular upgrade is quite easier using Angular CLI  ng update  command as mentioned below. For example, if you
upgrade from Angular 7 to 8 then your lazy loaded route imports will be migrated to the new import syntax
automatically.

$ ng update @angular/cli @angular/core

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146. What is Angular Material?

Angular Material is a collection of Material Design components for Angular framework following the Material Design
spec. You can apply Material Design very easily using Angular Material. The installation can be done through npm or
yarn,

npm install --save @angular/material @angular/cdk @angular/animations

(OR)
yarn add @angular/material @angular/cdk @angular/animations

It supports the most recent two versions of all major browsers. The latest version of Angular material is 8.1.1

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147. How do you upgrade location service of angularjs?

If you are using  $location  service in your old AngularJS application, now you can use  LocationUpgradeModule (unified
location service) which puts the responsibilities of  $location  service to  Location  service in Angular. Let's add this
module to  AppModule  as below,

// Other imports ...

import { LocationUpgradeModule } from '@angular/common/upgrade';

@NgModule({
imports: [
// Other NgModule imports...
LocationUpgradeModule.config()
]
})
export class AppModule {}

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148. What is NgUpgrade?

NgUpgrade is a library put together by the Angular team, which you can use in your applications to mix and match
AngularJS and Angular components and bridge the AngularJS and Angular dependency injection systems.

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149. How do you test Angular application using CLI?

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Angular CLI downloads and install everything needed with the Jasmine Test framework. You just need to run  ng
test  to see the test results. By default this command builds the app in watch mode, and launches the  Karma test
runner . The output of test results would be as below,

10% building modules 1/1 modules 0 active

...INFO [karma]: Karma v1.7.1 server started at http://0.0.0.0:9876/
...INFO [launcher]: Launching browser Chrome ...
...INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Chrome
...INFO [Chrome ...]: Connected on socket ...
Chrome ...: Executed 3 of 3 SUCCESS (0.135 secs / 0.205 secs)

Note: A chrome browser also opens and displays the test output in the "Jasmine HTML Reporter".

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150. How to use polyfills in Angular application?

The Angular CLI provides support for polyfills officially. When you create a new project with the ng new command,
a  src/polyfills.ts  configuration file is created as part of your project folder. This file includes the mandatory and
many of the optional polyfills as JavaScript import statements. Let's categorize the polyfills,

i. Mandatory polyfills: These are installed automatically when you create your project with ng new command and
the respective import statements enabled in 'src/polyfills.ts' file.
ii. Optional polyfills: You need to install its npm package and then create import statement in 'src/polyfills.ts' file. For
example, first you need to install below npm package for adding web animations (optional) polyfill.

npm install --save web-animations-js

and create import statement in polyfill file.

import 'web-animations-js';

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151. What are the ways to trigger change detection in Angular?

You can inject either ApplicationRef or NgZone, or ChangeDetectorRef into your component and apply below specific
methods to trigger change detection in Angular. i.e, There are 3 possible ways,

i. ApplicationRef.tick(): Invoke this method to explicitly process change detection and its side-effects. It check the full
component tree.
ii. NgZone.run(callback): It evaluate the callback function inside the Angular zone.
iii. ChangeDetectorRef.detectChanges(): It detects only the components and it's children.

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152. What are the differences of various versions of Angular?

There are different versions of Angular framework. Let's see the features of all the various versions,

i. Angular 1 • Angular 1 (AngularJS) is the first angular framework released in the year 2010. • AngularJS is not built
for mobile devices. • It is based on controllers with MVC architecture.
ii. Angular 2 • Angular 2 was released in the year 2016. Angular 2 is a complete rewrite of Angular1 version. • The
performance issues that Angular 1 version had has been addressed in Angular 2 version. • Angular 2 is built from
scratch for mobile devices unlike Angular 1 version. • Angular 2 is components based.
iii. Angular 3 The following are the different package versions in Angular 2. • @angular/core v2.3.0 •
@angular/compiler v2.3.0 • @angular/http v2.3.0 • @angular/router v3.3.0 The router package is already versioned
3 so to avoid confusion switched to Angular 4 version and skipped 3 version.
iv. Angular 4 • The compiler generated code file size in AOT mode is very much reduced. • With Angular 4 the
production bundles size is reduced by hundreds of KB’s. • Animation features are removed from angular/core and

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formed as a separate package. • Supports Typescript 2.1 and 2.2.

v. Angular 5 • Angular 5 makes angular faster. It improved the loading time and execution time. • Shipped with new
build optimizer. • Supports Typescript 2.5.
vi. Angular 6 • It is released in May 2018. • Includes Angular Command Line Interface (CLI), Component Development
KIT (CDK), Angular Material Package.
vii. Angular 7 • It is released in October 2018. • TypeScript 3.1 • RxJS 6.3 • New Angular CLI • CLI Prompts capability
provide an ability to ask questions to the user before they run. It is like interactive dialog between the user and the
CLI • With the improved CLI Prompts capability, it helps developers to make the decision. New ng commands ask
users for routing and CSS styles types(SCSS) and ng add @angular/material asks for themes and gestures or
animations.

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153. What are the security principles in angular?

i. You should avoid direct use of the DOM APIs.
ii. You should enable Content Security Policy (CSP) and configure your web server to return appropriate CSP HTTP
headers.
iii. You should Use the offline template compiler.
iv. You should Use Server Side XSS protection.
v. You should Use DOM Sanitizer.
vi. You should Preventing CSRF or XSRF attacks.

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154. What is the reason to deprecate Web Tracing Framework?

Angular has supported the integration with the Web Tracing Framework (WTF) for the purpose of performance testing.
Since it is not well maintained and failed in majority of the applications, the support is deprecated in latest releases.

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155. What is the reason to deprecate web worker packages?

Both @angular/platform-webworker and @angular/platform-webworker-dynamic are officially deprecated, the Angular
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156. How do you find angular CLI version?

Angular CLI provides it's installed version using below different ways using ng command

ng v
ng version
ng -v
ng --version

and the output would be as below,

Angular CLI: 1.6.3

Node: 8.11.3
OS: darwin x64
Angular:
...

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157. What is the browser support for Angular?

Angular supports most recent browsers which includes both desktop and mobile browsers.
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Browser Version

Chrome latest

Firefox latest

Edge 2 most recent major versions

IE 11, 10, 9 (Compatibility mode is not supported)

Safari 2 most recent major versions

IE Mobile 11

iOS 2 most recent major versions

Android 7.0, 6.0, 5.0, 5.1, 4.4

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158. What is schematic?

It's a scaffolding library that defines how to generate or transform a programming project by creating, modifying,
refactoring, or moving files and code. It defines rules that operate on a virtual file system called a tree.

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159. What is rule in Schematics?

In schematics world, it's a function that operates on a file tree to create, delete, or modify files in a specific manner.

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160. What is Schematics CLI?

Schematics come with their own command-line tool known as Schematics CLI. It is used to install the schematics
executable, which you can use to create a new schematics collection with an initial named schematic. The collection
folder is a workspace for schematics. You can also use the schematics command to add a new schematic to an existing
collection, or extend an existing schematic. You can install Schematic CLI globally as below,

npm install -g @angular-devkit/schematics-cli

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161. What are the best practices for security in angular?

Below are the best practices of security in angular,

i. Use the latest Angular library releases

ii. Don't modify your copy of Angular
iii. Avoid Angular APIs marked in the documentation as “Security Risk.”

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162. What is Angular security model for preventing XSS attacks?

Angular treats all values as untrusted by default. i.e, Angular sanitizes and escapes untrusted values When a value is
inserted into the DOM from a template, via property, attribute, style, class binding, or interpolation.

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163. What is the role of template compiler for prevention of XSS attacks?

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The offline template compiler prevents vulnerabilities caused by template injection, and greatly improves application
performance. So it is recommended to use offline template compiler in production deployments without dynamically
generating any template.

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164. What are the various security contexts in Angular?

Angular defines the following security contexts for sanitization,

i. HTML: It is used when interpreting a value as HTML such as binding to innerHtml.

ii. Style: It is used when binding CSS into the style property.
iii. URL: It is used for URL properties such as .
iv. Resource URL: It is a URL that will be loaded and executed as code such as <script src>.

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165. What is Sanitization? Is angular supports it?

Sanitization is the inspection of an untrusted value, turning it into a value that's safe to insert into the DOM. Yes,
Angular suppports sanitization. It sanitizes untrusted values for HTML, styles, and URLs but sanitizing resource URLs
isn't possible because they contain arbitrary code.

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166. What is the purpose of innerHTML?

The innerHtml is a property of HTML-Elements, which allows you to set it's html-content programatically. Let's display
the below html code snippet in a

tag as below using innerHTML binding,

<div [innerHTML]="htmlSnippet"></div>

and define the htmlSnippet property from any component

export class myComponent {

htmlSnippet: string = '<b>Hello World</b>, Angular';
}

Unfortunately this property could cause Cross Site Scripting (XSS) security bugs when improperly handled.

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167. What is the difference between interpolated content and innerHTML?

The main difference between interpolated and innerHTML code is the behavior of code interpreted. Interpolated
content is always escaped i.e, HTML isn't interpreted and the browser displays angle brackets in the element's text
content. Where as in innerHTML binding, the content is interpreted i.e, the browser will convert < and > characters as
HTMLEntities. For example, the usage in template would be as below,

<p>Interpolated value:</p>
<div >{{htmlSnippet}}</div>
<p>Binding of innerHTML:</p>
<div [innerHTML]="htmlSnippet"></div>

and the property defined in a component.

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export class InnerHtmlBindingComponent {

htmlSnippet = 'Template <script>alert("XSS Attack")</script> <b>Code attached</b>';
}

Even though innerHTML binding create a chance of XSS attack, Angular recognizes the value as unsafe and
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168. How do you prevent automatic sanitization?

Sometimes the applications genuinely need to include executable code such as displaying <iframe> from an URL. In
this case, you need to prevent automatic sanitization in Angular by saying that you inspected a value, checked how it
was generated, and made sure it will always be secure. Basically it involves 2 steps, i. Inject DomSanitizer: You can inject
DomSanitizer in component as parameter in constructor ii. Mark the trusted value by calling some of the below
methods

i. bypassSecurityTrustHtml
ii. bypassSecurityTrustScript
iii. bypassSecurityTrustStyle
iv. bypassSecurityTrustUrl
v. bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl

For example,The usage of dagerous url to trusted url would be as below,

constructor(private sanitizer: DomSanitizer) {

this.dangerousUrl = 'javascript:alert("XSS attack")';
this.trustedUrl = sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustUrl(this.dangerousUrl);

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169. Is safe to use direct DOM API methods in terms of security?

No,the built-in browser DOM APIs or methods don't automatically protect you from security vulnerabilities. In this case
it is recommended to use Angular templates instead of directly interacting with DOM. If it is unavoidable then use the
built-in Angular sanitization functions.

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170. What is DOM sanitizer?

DomSanitizer is used to help preventing Cross Site Scripting Security bugs (XSS) by sanitizing values to be safe to use
in the different DOM contexts.

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171. How do you support server side XSS protection in Angular application?
The server-side XSS protection is supported in an angular application by using a templating language that
automatically escapes values to prevent XSS vulnerabilities on the server. But don't use a templating language to
generate Angular templates on the server side which creates a high risk of introducing template-injection
vulnerabilities.

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172. Is angular prevents http level vulnerabilities?

Angular has built-in support for preventing http level vulnerabilities such as as cross-site request forgery (CSRF or
XSRF) and cross-site script inclusion (XSSI). Even though these vulnerabilities need to be mitigated on server-side,
Angular provides helpers to make the integration easier on the client side.

i. HttpClient supports a token mechanism used to prevent XSRF attacks

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ii. HttpClient library recognizes the convention of prefixed JSON responses(which non-executable js code with
")]}',\n" characters) and automatically strips the string ")]}',\n" from all responses before further parsing

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173. What are Http Interceptors?

Http Interceptors are part of @angular/common/http, which inspect and transform HTTP requests from your
application to the server and vice-versa on HTTP responses. These interceptors can perform a variety of implicit tasks,
from authentication to logging. The syntax of HttpInterceptor interface looks like as below,

interface HttpInterceptor {
intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>>
}

You can use interceptors by declaring a service class that implements the intercept() method of the HttpInterceptor
interface.

@Injectable()
export class MyInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
constructor() {}
intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
...
}
}

After that you can use it in your module,

@NgModule({
...
providers: [
{
provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
useClass: MyInterceptor,
multi: true
}
]
...
})
export class AppModule {}

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174. What are the applications of HTTP interceptors?

The HTTP Interceptors can be used for different variety of tasks,

i. Authentication
ii. Logging
iii. Caching
iv. Fake backend
v. URL transformation
vi. Modifying headers

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175. Is multiple interceptors supported in Angular?

Yes, Angular supports multiple interceptors at a time. You could define multiple interceptors in providers property:

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providers: [
{ provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS, useClass: MyFirstInterceptor, multi: true },
{ provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS, useClass: MySecondInterceptor, multi: true }
],

The interceptors will be called in the order in which they were provided. i.e, MyFirstInterceptor will be called first in the
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176. How can I use interceptor for an entire application?

You can use same instance of  HttpInterceptors  for the entire app by importing the  HttpClientModule  only in your
AppModule, and add the interceptors to the root application injector. For example, let's define a class that is injectable
in root application.

@Injectable()
export class MyInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
intercept(
req: HttpRequest<any>,
next: HttpHandler
): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {

return next.handle(req).do(event => {

if (eventt instanceof HttpResponse) {
// Code goes here
}
});

}
}

After that import HttpClientModule in AppModule

@NgModule({
declarations: [AppComponent],
imports: [BrowserModule, HttpClientModule],
providers: [
{ provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS, useClass: MyInterceptor, multi: true }
],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}

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177. How does Angular simplifies Internationalization?

Angular simplifies the below areas of internationalization,

i. Displaying dates, number, percentages, and currencies in a local format.

ii. Preparing text in component templates for translation.
iii. Handling plural forms of words.
iv. Handling alternative text.

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178. How do you manually register locale data?

By default, Angular only contains locale data for en-US which is English as spoken in the United States of America . But
if you want to set to another locale, you must import locale data for that new locale. After that you can register
using  registerLocaleData  method and the syntax of this method looks like below,

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registerLocaleData(data: any, localeId?: any, extraData?: any): void

For example, let us import German locale and register it in the application

import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common';

import localeDe from '@angular/common/locales/de';

registerLocaleData(localeDe, 'de');

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179. What are the four phases of template translation?

The i18n template translation process has four phases:

i. Mark static text messages in your component templates for translation: You can place i18n on every element tag
whose fixed text is to be translated. For example, you need i18n attribue for heading as below,

<h1 i18n>Hello i18n!</h1>

ii. Create a translation file: Use the Angular CLI xi18n command to extract the marked text into an industry-standard
translation source file. i.e, Open terminal window at the root of the app project and run the CLI command xi18n.

ng xi18n

The above command creates a file named  messages.xlf  in your project's root directory. Note: You can supply
command options to change the format, the name, the location, and the source locale of the extracted file.

iii. Edit the generated translation file: Translate the extracted text into the target language. In this step, create a
localization folder (such as  locale )under root directory(src) and then create target language translation file by
copying and renaming the default messages.xlf file. You need to copy source text node and provide the translation
under target tag. For example, create the translation file(messages.de.xlf) for German language

<trans-unit id="greetingHeader" datatype="html">

<source>Hello i18n!</source>
<target>Hallo i18n !</target>
<note priority="1" from="description">A welcome header for this sample</note>
<note priority="1" from="meaning">welcome message</note>
</trans-unit>

iv. Merge the completed translation file into the app: You need to use Angular CLI build command to compile the
app, choosing a locale-specific configuration, or specifying the following command options. 1. --i18nFile=path to
the translation file 2. --i18nFormat=format of the translation file 3. --i18nLocale= locale id

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180. What is the purpose of i18n attribute?

The Angular i18n attribute marks translatable content. It is a custom attribute, recognized by Angular tools and
compilers. The compiler removes it after translation. Note: Remember that i18n is not an Angular directive.

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181. What is the purpose of custom id?

When you change the translatable text, the Angular extractor tool generates a new id for that translation unit. Because
of this behavior, you must then update the translation file with the new id every time. For example, the translation
file  messages.de.xlf.html  has generated trans-unit for some text message as below

<trans-unit id="827wwe104d3d69bf669f823jjde888" datatype="html">

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You can avoid this manual update of  id  attribute by specifying a custom id in the i18n attribute by using the prefix
@@.

<h1 i18n="@@welcomeHeader">Hello i18n!</h1>

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182. What happens if the custom id is not unique?

You need to define custom ids as unique. If you use the same id for two different text messages then only the first one
is extracted. But its translation is used in place of both original text messages. For example, let's define same custom
id  myCustomId  for two messages,

<h2 i18n="@@myCustomId">Good morning</h3>

<!-- ... -->
<h2 i18n="@@myCustomId">Good night</p>

and the translation unit generated for first text in for German language as

<trans-unit id="myId" datatype="html">

<source>Good morning</source>
<target state="new">Guten Morgen</target>
</trans-unit>

Since custom id is the same, both of the elements in the translation contain the same text as below

<h2>Guten Morgen</h2>
<h2>Guten Morgen</h2>

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183. Can I translate text without creating an element?

Yes, you can achieve using  <ng-container>  attribute. Normally you need to wrap a text content with i18n attribute for
the translation. But if you don't want to create a new DOM element just for the sake of translation, you can wrap the
text in an element.

<ng-container i18n>I'm not using any DOM element for translation</ng-container>

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184. How can I translate attribute?

You can translate attributes by attaching  i18n-x  attribute where x is the name of the attribute to translate. For
example, you can translate image title attribute as below,

<img [src]="example" i18n-title title="Internationlization" />

By the way, you can also assign meaning, description and id with the i18n-x="|@@" syntax.

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185. List down the pluralization categories?

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Pluralization has below categories depending on the language.

i. =0 (or any other number)

ii. zero
iii. one
iv. two
v. few
vi. many
vii. other

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186. What is select ICU expression?

ICU expression is is similar to the plural expressions except that you choose among alternative translations based on a
string value instead of a number. Here you define those string values. Let's take component binding
with  residenceStatus  property which has "citizen", "permanent resident" and "foreigner" possible values and the
message maps those values to the appropriate translations.

<span i18n>The person is {residenceStatus, select, citizen {citizen} permanent resident {permanentResident} for

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187. How do you report missing translations?

By default, When translation is missing, it generates a warning message such as "Missing translation for message
'somekey'". But you can configure with a different level of message in Angular compiler as below,

i. Error: It throws an error. If you are using AOT compilation, the build will fail. But if you are using JIT compilation,
the app will fail to load.
ii. Warning (default): It shows a 'Missing translation' warning in the console or shell.
iii. Ignore: It doesn't do anything. If you use AOT compiler then you need to perform changes
in  configurations section of your Angular CLI configuration file, angular.json.

"configurations": {
...
"de": {
...
"i18nMissingTranslation": "error"
}
}

If you use the JIT compiler, specify the warning level in the compiler config at bootstrap by adding the
'MissingTranslationStrategy' property as below,

import { MissingTranslationStrategy } from '@angular/core';

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { AppModule } from './app/app.module';

platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule, {
missingTranslation: MissingTranslationStrategy.Error,
providers: [
// ...
]
});

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188. How do you provide build configuration for multiple locales?

You can provide build configuration such as translation file path, name, format and application url
in  configuration settings of Angular.json file. For example, the German version of your application configured the
build as follows,

"configurations": {
"de": {
"aot": true,
"outputPath": "dist/my-project-de/",
"baseHref": "/fr/",
"i18nFile": "src/locale/messages.de.xlf",
"i18nFormat": "xlf",
"i18nLocale": "de",
"i18nMissingTranslation": "error",
}

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189. What is an angular library?

An Angular library is an Angular project that differs from an app in that it cannot run on its own. It must be imported
and used in an app. For example, you can import or add  service worker  library to an Angular application which turns
an application into a Progressive Web App (PWA). Note: You can create own third party library and publish it as npm
package to be used in an Application.

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190. What is AOT compiler?

The AOT compiler is part of a build process that produces a small, fast, ready-to-run application package, typically for
production. It converts your Angular HTML and TypeScript code into efficient JavaScript code during the build phase
before the browser downloads and runs that code.

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191. How do you select an element in component template?

You can control any DOM element via ElementRef by injecting it into your component's constructor. i.e, The component
should have constructor with ElementRef parameter,

constructor(myElement: ElementRef) {
el.nativeElement.style.backgroundColor = 'yellow';
}

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192. What is TestBed?

TestBed is an api for writing unit tests for Angular applications and it's libraries. Even though We still write our tests in
Jasmine and run using Karma, this API provides an easier way to create components, handle injection, test
asynchronous behaviour and interact with our application.

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193. What is protractor?

Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. It runs tests against your
application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.

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npm install -g protractor

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194. What is collection?

Collection is a set of related schematics collected in an npm package. For example,  @schematics/angular  collection is
used in Angular CLI to apply transforms to a web-app project. You can create your own schematic collection for
customizing angular projects.

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195. How do you create schematics for libraries?

You can create your own schematic collections to integrate your library with the Angular CLI. These collections are
classified as 3 main schematics,

i. Add schematics: These schematics are used to install library in an Angular workspace using  ng add  command. For
example, @angular/material schematic tells the add command to install and set up Angular Material and theming.
ii. Generate schematics: These schematics are used to modify projects, add configurations and scripts, and scaffold
artifacts in library using  ng generate  command. For example, @angular/material generation schematic supplies
generation schematics for the UI components. Let's say the table component is generated using  ng generate
@angular/material:table .
iii. Update schematics: These schematics are used to update library's dependencies and adjust for breaking changes
in a new library release using  ng update  command. For example, @angular/material update schematic updates
material and cdk dependencies using  ng update @angular/material  command.

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196. How do you use jquery in Angular?

You can use jquery in Angular using 3 simple steps,

i. Install the dependency: At first, install the jquery dependency using npm

npm install --save jquery

ii. Add the jquery script: In Angular-CLI project, add the relative path to jquery in the angular.json file.

"scripts": [
"node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"
]

iii. Start using jquery: Define the element in template. Whereas declare the jquery variable and apply CSS classes on
the element.

<div id="elementId">
<h1>JQuery integration</h1>
</div>

import {Component, OnInit} from '@angular/core';

declare var $: any; // (or) import * as $ from 'jquery';

@Component({
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

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ngOnInit(): void {
$(document).ready(() => {
$('#elementId').css({'text-color': 'blue', 'font-size': '150%'});
});
}
}

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197. What is the reason for No provider for HTTP exception?

This exception is due to missing HttpClientModule in your module. You just need to import in module as below,

import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

@NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule,
HttpClientModule,
],
declarations: [ AppComponent ],
bootstrap: [ AppComponent ]
})
export class AppModule { }

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198. What is router state?

The RouteState is an interface which represents the state of the router as a tree of activated routes.

interface RouterState extends Tree {

snapshot: RouterStateSnapshot
toString(): string
}

You can access the current RouterState from anywhere in the Angular app using the Router service and the routerState
property.

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199. How can I use SASS in angular project?

When you are creating your project with angular cli, you can use  ng new command. It generates all your components
with predefined sass files.

ng new My_New_Project --style=sass

But if you are changing your existing style in your project then use  ng set  command,

ng set defaults.styleExt scss

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200. What is the purpose of hidden property?

The hidden property is used to show or hide the associated DOM element, based on an expression. It can be compared
close to  ng-show  directive in AngularJS. Let's say you want to show user name based on the availability of user
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<div [hidden]="!user.name">
My name is: {{user.name}}
</div>

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201. What is the difference between ngIf and hidden property?

The main difference is that *ngIf will remove the element from the DOM, while [hidden] actually plays with the CSS
style by setting  display:none . Generally it is expensive to add and remove stuff from the DOM for frequent actions.

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202. What is slice pipe?

The slice pipe is used to create a new Array or String containing a subset (slice) of the elements. The syntax looks like as
below,

{{ value_expression | slice : start [ : end ] }}

For example, you can provide 'hello' list based on a greeting array,

@Component({
selector: 'list-pipe',
template: `<ul>
<li *ngFor="let i of greeting | slice:0:5">{{i}}</li>
</ul>`
})
export class PipeListComponent {
greeting: string[] = ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'm','o', 'r', 'n', 'i', 'n', 'g'];
}

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203. What is index property in ngFor directive?

The index property of the NgFor directive is used to return the zero-based index of the item in each iteration. You can
capture the index in a template input variable and use it in the template. For example, you can capture the index in a
variable named indexVar and displays it with the todo's name using ngFor directive as below.

<div *ngFor="let todo of todos; let i=index">{{i + 1}} - {{todo.name}}</div>

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204. What is the purpose of ngFor trackBy?

The main purpose of using *ngFor with trackBy option is performance optimization. Normally if you use NgFor with
large data sets, a small change to one item by removing or adding an item, can trigger a cascade of DOM
manipulations. In this case, Angular sees only a fresh list of new object references and to replace the old DOM elements
with all new DOM elements. You can help Angular to track which items added or removed by providing
a  trackBy function which takes the index and the current item as arguments and needs to return the unique identifier
for this item. For example, lets set trackBy to the trackByTodos() method

<div *ngFor="let todo of todos; trackBy: trackByTodos">

({{todo.id}}) {{todo.name}}
</div>

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and define the trackByTodos method,

trackByTodos(index: number, item: Todo): number { return todo.id; }

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205. What is the purpose of ngSwitch directive?

NgSwitch directive is similar to JavaScript switch statement which displays one element from among several possible
elements, based on a switch condition. In this case only the selected element placed into the DOM. It has been used
along with  NgSwitch ,  NgSwitchCase  and  NgSwitchDefault  directives. For example, let's display the browser details
based on selected browser using ngSwitch directive.

<div [ngSwitch]="currentBrowser.name">
<chrome-browser *ngSwitchCase="'chrome'" [item]="currentBrowser"></chrome-browser>
<firefox-browser *ngSwitchCase="'firefox'" [item]="currentBrowser"></firefox-browser>
<opera-browser *ngSwitchCase="'opera'" [item]="currentBrowser"></opera-browser>
<safari-browser *ngSwitchCase="'safari'" [item]="currentBrowser"></safari-browser>
<ie-browser *ngSwitchDefault [item]="currentItem"></ie-browser>
</div>

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206. Is it possible to do aliasing for inputs and outputs?

Yes, it is possible to do aliasing for inputs and outputs in two ways.

i. Aliasing in metadata: The inputs and outputs in the metadata aliased using a colon-delimited (:) string with the
directive property name on the left and the public alias on the right. i.e. It will be in the format of
propertyName:alias.

inputs: ['input1: buyItem'],

outputs: ['outputEvent1: completedEvent']

ii. Aliasing with @Input()/@Output() decorator: The alias can be specified for the property name by passing the
alias name to the @Input()/@Output() decorator.i.e. It will be in the form of @Input(alias) or @Output(alias).

@Input('buyItem') input1: string;

@Output('completedEvent') outputEvent1 = new EventEmitter<string>();

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207. What is safe navigation operator?

The safe navigation operator(?)(or known as Elvis Operator) is used to guard against  null  and  undefined  values in
property paths when you are not aware whether a path exists or not. i.e. It returns value of the object path if it exists,
else it returns the null value. For example, you can access nested properties of a user profile easily without null
reference errors as below,

<p>The user firstName is: {{user?.fullName.firstName}}</p>

Using this safe navigation operator, Angular framework stops evaluating the expression when it hits the first null value
and renders the view without any errors.

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208. Is any special configuration required for Angular9?

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You don't need any special configuration. In Angular9, the Ivy renderer is the default Angular compiler. Even though Ivy
is available Angular8 itself, you had to configure it in tsconfig.json file as below,

"angularCompilerOptions": { "enableIvy": true }

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209. What are type safe TestBed API changes in Angular9?

Angular 9 provides type safe changes in TestBed API changes by replacing the old get function with the new inject
method. Because TestBed.get method is not type-safe. The usage would be as below,

TestBed.get(ChangeDetectorRef) // returns any. It is deprecated now.

TestBed.inject(ChangeDetectorRef) // returns ChangeDetectorRef

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210. Is mandatory to pass static flag for ViewChild?

In Angular 8, the static flag is required for ViewChild. Whereas in Angular9, you no longer need to pass this property.
Once you updated to Angular9 using  ng update , the migration will remove { static: false } script everywhere.

@ViewChild(ChildDirective) child: ChildDirective; // Angular9 usage

@ViewChild(ChildDirective, { static: false }) child: ChildDirective; //Angular8 usage

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211. What are the list of template expression operators?

The Angular template expression language supports three special template expression operators.

i. Pipe operator
ii. Safe navigation operator
iii. Non-null assertion operator

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212. What is the precedence between pipe and ternary operators?

The pipe operator has a higher precedence than the ternary operator (?:). For example, the expression  first ? second
: third | fourth  is parsed as  first ? second : (third | fourth) .

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