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📚 Bookstore Angular App

A modern Angular application for managing a collection of books — featuring CRUD operations, routing, guards, reactive forms, and reusable components. This project is built using standalone Angular components and demonstrates all key Angular concepts.

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🚀 Features

• ✅ CRUD Operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete books)
• 🔒 Authentication & Route Guards
• 📖 Routing & Navigation
• 💡 Reusable Components, Pipes, and Directives
• 🧩 Reactive Forms for Book Management
• 🎨 Bootstrap-based Responsive UI
• ⚙️ HTTP Services & Interceptors
• 🧭 Lifecycle Hooks and Data Binding

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🏗️ Project Structure

bookstore-frontend/
│
├── angular.json
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
│
└── src/
    ├── app/
    │   ├── core/
    │   │   ├── guards/
    │   │   ├── interceptors/
    │   │   ├── services/
    │   │   └── core.module.ts
    │   ├── shared/
    │   │   ├── components/
    │   │   ├── directives/
    │   │   ├── pipes/
    │   │   └── shared.module.ts
    │   ├── features/
    │   │   ├── books/
    │   │   │   ├── components/
    │   │   │   ├── pages/
    │   │   │   └── books.module.ts
    │   │   └── auth/
    │   │       └── auth.module.ts
    │   ├── pages/
    │   ├── models/
    │   ├── app-routing.module.ts
    │   ├── app.component.*
    │   └── app.module.ts
    │
    ├── assets/
    ├── environments/
    ├── index.html
    ├── main.ts
    └── styles.css

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🧠 Key Concepts Demonstrated

Angular Concept	Where It’s Used
Interpolation / Binding	Book list and detail views
@Input / @Output	Between book-item and book-list components
Lifecycle Hooks	Used in components to track data flow
Directives	Custom highlight directive
Reactive Forms	Book creation & editing forms
Routing & Guards	Navigation and route protection
Services & HTTPClient	Book and Auth services
Pipes	Custom search pipe for filtering books

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⚙️ Installation & Setup

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/bookstore-frontend.git
   cd bookstore-frontend

2. Install dependencies

   npm install

3. Run the development server

   ng serve

   The app will be live at http://localhost:4200/

4. Build for production

   ng build --prod

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🧩 API Connection

This app expects a Bookstore API backend exposing REST endpoints such as:

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/books	Fetch all books
GET	/api/books/:id	Fetch single book
POST	/api/books	Add a new book
PUT	/api/books/:id	Update existing book
DELETE	/api/books/:id	Delete a book

Set your API base URL in:

src/environments/environment.ts

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🧰 Dependencies

• @angular/core
• @angular/router
• @angular/forms
• @angular/common/http
• rxjs
• bootstrap

Install Bootstrap:

npm install bootstrap

Then import it in angular.json under styles.

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🎨 UI Example

• Home Page: Overview and navigation
• Books Page: List of all books with options to view, edit, or delete
• Add/Edit Page: Form with validation using reactive forms
• Login Page: Authenticates user and enables route protection

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🧑‍💻 Authors

Ebraheem Elsharkawy Frontend Developer | Angular Enthusiast 📧 [ebraheemelsharkawy@gmail.com] 💼 LinkedIn

Abdelrahman Zenhom Frontend Developer | Angular Enthusiast 📧 [exampley@gmail.com] 💼 LinkedIn