Deploying Angular applications on GitHub Pages is a great way to host them for free. Angular is a popular JavaScript framework for building single-page applications.
Angular has a comprehensive command-line interface that supports quick creation and set-up of JavaScript applications. Angular CLI has many commands to create, create, serve and generate application components.
You can also use the CLI to deploy Angular applications to a variety of targets, including GitHub Pages.
What you need
To get the most out of this guide, you should have the following skills and tools.
Now that you have all that, let’s start the deployment process.
Deployment process
To get started, you should create a GitHub repository for your project and push the code to the main/master branch.
Next, create a GH-pages branch.
1. Create gh-pages branch
This is a hack that will help you get the GH-page link to help you set the base-href.
First, build gh-pages in your local repository with the following command.
2. Get Repo Link
On the toolbar, under the repo name, click Settings > Pages.
Under Build and Deploy, select Deploy from a branch. Next, select gh-pages as the branch name, then click Save. This will create a gh-pages link in the top right under the gh-pages label.
Next, copy this link to the published site as shown below. You would use the link to set up base-ref during deployment.
3. Install angular-cli-ghpage
The angular-cli-ghpages package is a tool that Angular CLI uses for deployment purposes.
Navigate back to your local project repository. Then install and run angular-cli-ghpage with this command.
4. Deploy the App
To build the app in production, you need to connect it to a remote server on GitHub.
Configure your app on the remote server by running the following command.
To learn more about how you can use the Angular CLI in deployment, see the Angular documentation.
How to deploy an Angular app on GitHub Pages
There are many ways to deploy Angular apps to gh-pages, but this way is the easiest. You set up your GH-Pages repo link and use it with Angular-CLI to deploy your app to GitHub Pages.
There’s a lot more you can do with Angular and the Angular CLI. Feel free to explore. Use the CLI to deploy apps to GH-Pages for free visibility and hosting for your apps.
Angular and React are two top frontend frameworks for web applications. Although their verticals are slightly different (one a development platform, the other a library), they are seen as major competitors. It is safe to assume that you can use any framework to develop an application.
The key question then becomes: why would you choose one over the other? This article aims to answer that by developing a simple signup form. The form will depend entirely on the validation capabilities of each framework.
The above image displays only the edit section of the Angular application.
You can see from the file structures above that both frameworks rely heavily on the use of components.
Creating logic for each form application
Each application will have a single objective: submit the form only if each input field contains valid data. The Username field is valid if it contains at least one character. Two password fields are valid if their values are the same.
Angular provides two forms creation methods: template-driven and reactive. The reactive approach allows the developer to create custom validation criteria. The template-driven approach comes with features that make form validation easy.
React is only able to develop a form with custom validation. However, React is the more popular framework and has a larger community, so there are many form-handling libraries available for React. Given that the goal here is to avoid the use of external libraries, the React application will rely on custom validation.