Chapter 8. Interacting with servers using HTTP and WebSockets
This chapter covers
- Creating a simple web server using the Node and Express frameworks
- Making server requests from Angular using the Http object API
- Communicating with the Node server from Angular clients using the HTTP protocol
- Wrapping a WebSocket client into an Angular service that generates an observable stream
- Broadcasting data from the server to multiple clients via WebSockets
Angular applications can communicate with any web server supporting HTTP or WebSocket protocols, regardless of what server-side platform is used. So far, we’ve been covering mostly the client side of Angular applications, with the weather service example in chapter 5 being the only exception. In ...
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