Valentine Awe

Angular Magical directives

What if you could stop repeating yourself in Angular? Master four magical directives to build truly reusable components.

Angular Magical directives
#1about 1 minute

Overview of Angular's core structural directives

An introduction to the four key directives for building clean and reusable components: ng-template, ng-container, ng-content, and ng-template-outlet.

#2about 3 minutes

How to use ng-template for conditional rendering

Learn how ng-template represents an Angular template without rendering to the DOM until explicitly called, which is useful for complex `ngIf/else` logic.

#3about 3 minutes

Using ng-container to avoid extra DOM elements

Use ng-container as a grouping element that doesn't create an extra node in the DOM, helping to write cleaner HTML and improve performance.

#4about 5 minutes

Creating reusable components with ng-content

Implement content projection using ng-content to pass content into a component, and use the `select` attribute for multi-slot projection.

#5about 8 minutes

Building highly configurable components with ng-template-outlet

Leverage ng-template-outlet to create highly dynamic components by providing default templates and passing contextual data into a template.

#6about 7 minutes

Q&A on styling, dynamic components, and performance

Audience questions are answered regarding styling projected content without `::ng-deep`, handling many template variations, and performance considerations.

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