Angular Styling Workshop
Alexander Thalhammer
Experienced software developer and architect with 20 years of experience in planning and implementing web-based business applications. Certified professional trainer according to ISO/IEC 17024, 9 years teaching assistant at the University of Graz.
Agenda
Part 1: Agentic Software Engineering Setup for Angular Styling
- Project setup: Angular, Git, ESLint including styling rules, Prettier & DevTools
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Highlight: Our Angular Best Practices Rules & Style Guide for AI and teams:
custom rules based on the official Angular best practices, extended with additional
refinements, special rules, and project guardrails for AI tools; including custom
Agent Skills for styling checks and other topics - Codex: CLI, IDE extensions vs. app, different modes, Git worktrees, automations
- Claude Code: CLI, IDE extensions vs. app, Plan, Goal, checkpoints, and diff review
- Best practices for VS Code, JetBrains, and other IDEs, other apps/tools & models
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Agentic workflows: analyze a styling issue, prioritize findings, implement a patch,
run tests, prepare the review, human-in-the-loop
Part 2: CSS Basics
- CSS usage and integration in Angular
- Properties, values, selectors, specificity, and combinators
- Box model, sizing, positioning, and pseudo-classes
Part 3: Modern CSS Architecture
- Low-specificity CSS, naming conventions, and BEM as a transition pattern
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Cascade layers, native CSS nesting,
:has(),:is(),
and:where() - Custom properties, design tokens, and theme structures
- Reset/base styles, components, utilities, and overrides
Part 3: Modern CSS Architecture
- Low-specificity CSS, naming conventions, and BEM as a transition pattern
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Cascade layers, native CSS nesting,
:has(),:is(),
and:where() - Custom properties, design tokens, and theme structures
- Reset/base styles, components, utilities, and overrides
Part 4: Layout & Responsive Design
- Flexbox, Grid, gap, aspect ratio, and intrinsic sizing
- Mobile first, media queries, and container queries
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Modern viewport units,
clamp(),min(),max(),
and fluid spacing/typography - Images, background images,
object-fit, and responsive assets
Part 5: Typography, Colors & Accessibility in Styling
- Text, fonts, and typographic hierarchy
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Modern color functions, OKLCH,
color-mix(),light-dark(),
andcolor-scheme - Contrast, focus indicators, reduced motion, and forced colors/high contrast
- Forms, states, and validation styling
Part 6: Animation & Interaction Styling
- Transforms, transitions, and keyframe animations
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Native CSS animations with Angular
animate.enterand
animate.leave - Performance-friendly animations and reduced-motion fallbacks
Part 7: Modern SCSS
- Sass
@use/@forwardand migration away from@import - Mixins, functions, and shared style modules
- When SCSS helps and when CSS custom properties are better
- Project structure for global, feature, and component styles
Part 8: Tailwind v4
- Setup and Angular integration
- CSS-first configuration,
@theme, and design tokens - Utility workflow, variants, and responsive/container-query utilities
- Combining Tailwind with component styles
Part 9: Angular Styling & Material
- Component styles,
styleUrl/styleUrls, and View Encapsulation -
:host,:host-context, Shadow DOM, and avoiding new
::ng-deepusage - Class/style bindings instead of
NgClass/NgStyle -
Angular Material 3 theming with
mat.theme, system tokens,
density, and overrides - Custom components and design systems based on Material/CDK
Part 10: Quality Assurance & Conclusion
- Visual regression checks with Playwright, Storybook, Chromatic, or similar tools
- Style review, maintainability, and team conventions
- Refactoring exercises and conclusion
Upcoming events
Reviews
I also appreciated the concrete examples of how to implement DDD in folder and files structures.
Individual In-House Company Workshops
All of our workshops are also available remotely or in-house at any time.
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FAQs on our workshops
How do your workshops and courses work?
Our seminars around Angular are a mixture of lecture, live coding and actual exercises. Together we implement what we have learned during the workshop directly on a example project. This mixture guarantees that the course never gets boring and “hands-on” is required instead of gray theory.
Who is the Angular hands-on training designed for?
Our Angular hands-on workshop is aimed at anyone who wants to develop applications with Angular in the future or is already doing so and now wants to better understand the background, context and building blocks of the framework.
Participants should have basic knowledge of web development (basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript).
For advanced Angular developers we offer advanced seminars and intensive trainings on specific use cases.
Where do the Angular workshops take place?
Our trainings take place as public workshops in seminar rooms at central hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In-House company workshops take place at your office or conference room.
All courses are also available as remote workshops, where we meet online in a virtual classroom and do the training via video calls, screen sharing and live coding.
Who are the trainers?
Our workshops are held by experienced trainers and software architects. In recent years, we have provided Angular training to well-known companies – including well-known banks, insurance companies, industrial groups. Trainers include well-known conference speakers, authors of books and professional articles, bloggers, Google Developer Experts and university lecturers.
At what times are the training sessions held?
Especially for dedicated company trainings, we are happy to accommodate you. Typical times are 9:00AM to 4:30PM / 5:00PM. Some of our English-language workshops are timed so that you can also attend at US friendly times.
Can we also book online training courses?
Absolutely. In fact, since the pandemic, this has been our main business model and we have had very good experience with it. We use a combination of screen sharing, interactive online whiteboards, and are happy to connect to your computer for support during the exercises if you wish. As with our on-site training, we use a combination of short presentations, discussions, live coding and hands-on labs.
Since there is no travel involved, you also save time and money. We can also respond more flexibly to your scheduling needs.
Can we adapt the training for our purposes?
Yes, very much so. In fact, that’s one of the benefits of dedicated corporate training. You are welcome to weight, shorten or add to our agenda proposals. As a rule, we also coordinate with your trainer about 2 weeks before the training. If you wish, we can also arrange it earlier.
Why Angular?
Among other things, Angular’s wide distribution speaks for itself, but also the fact that Google, an Internet giant that also uses the framework very intensively, is behind it. Google alone has over 2600 solutions based on it. Due to the wide distribution, there is a large community and thus a lot of know-how on the market as well as (free and commercial) products that are adapted to Angular. In addition, Angular provides much of what you need for large applications out of the box: test automation, form management, routing, etc. In this respect, you get a stack whose components are coordinated and work together in the long term.
How do you compensate for different prior knowledge?
The good news up front is that participants with different levels of prior knowledge are the rule, not the exception, in adult education. That’s why you’ll find optional fade-in hints and bonus exercises on our exercise sheets, for those who are a little faster. Of course, we also provide personal support for the exercises.
How many participants are recommended?
If you book a company training with us, we leave this decision to you in principle. However, experience shows that there should not be more than 15 participants, especially since a seminar lives very much from questions, discussions and practical exercises.
What software do we need?
Please install the following software packages on your computer:
– NodeJS in current version (we test with current LTS version).
– Angular CLI (npm i -g @angular/cli)
– Git
– Visual Studio (free) or WebStorm/IntelliJ (commercial)
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