How To Develop Login And Registration in Angular 18 App using API

Contents

Prerequisite:
Step 1: Create An Angular 18 Project
Step 2: Install packages
Step 3: Configure Application Environment
Step 4: Create Components
Step 5: Create a Service and Interface
Step 6: Update App Routing and App Html
Step 7: Run the app
Screenshots:

Hi there, today we will show you how to develop login and registration in Angular 18 app using API. Most of the web apps today that have users or different types of users require login or authentication to safeguard the functionalities and data information of the system. And today, I will show you how to make a user login and registration in Angular 18.

Angular is a popular open-source front-end web application framework primarily maintained by Google and a community of developers. It’s used for building dynamic, single-page web applications (SPAs) and provides tools and architecture to streamline the development process. Angular enables developers to create rich, interactive, and responsive user interfaces.

In this tutorial, we will be using the REST API available that is made by Binaryboxtus. you can check it out here.

Prerequisite:

^18.19.1 or newer
@angular/cli

Step 1: Create An Angular 18 Project

First, select a folder that you want the Angular 18 project to be created then execute this command on Terminal or CMD :

ng new angular-login-register

Step 2: Install packages

After creating a fresh angular project, go to the vue.js project folder and install these packages:

bootstrap – a package of bootstrap framework
axios – a promised-based HTTP library that is used to request to a server or API.

npm i bootstrap
npm i axios

Modify the angular.json file to include Bootstrap’s CSS. Locate the styles array inside “build” and add:

angular.json

"styles": [
              "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
              "src/styles.css"
            ],
            "scripts": [
              "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"
            ]

Step 3: Configure Application Environment

After installing the packages, we will now generate the app environment. We will declare the API base URL and API Key. Run the command below:

	ng generate environments

You can get the API_KEY here. Click the “Reveal Key” button and copy the API key.

After running the command this will generate files for the environment. let’s add value to the environment.

environment.development.ts

export const environment = {
    production: false,
    apiUrl: 'https://mock-api.binaryboxtuts.com/',
    apiKey: 'insert_api_key_here'
};

After configuring the environment, let’s configure the axios on main.ts.

src\main.ts

import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { appConfig } from './app/app.config';
import { AppComponent } from './app/app.component';
 
import axios from 'axios';
import { environment } from './environments/environment.development';
 
axios.defaults.baseURL = environment.apiUrl
  
axios.interceptors.request.use(function (config) {
  config.headers['X-Binarybox-Api-Key'] = environment.apiKey
  return config;
});
 
 
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, appConfig)
  .catch((err) => console.error(err));

Step 4: Create Components

We will now create the components. run the command below:

ng generate component login
ng generate component register
ng generate component dashboard

after running these commands it will create folders with files in them. We will now update the code on it.

src\app\login\login.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { UserAuthService } from '../user-auth.service';


@Component({
  selector: 'app-login',
  imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule, FormsModule],
  templateUrl: './login.component.html',
  styleUrl: './login.component.css'
})
export class LoginComponent implements OnInit{
  email:string = ''
  password:string = ''
  isSubmitting:boolean = false
  validationErrors:Array<any> = []

  constructor(public userAuthService: UserAuthService, private router: Router) {}

  ngOnInit(): void {
    if(localStorage.getItem('token') != "" && localStorage.getItem('token') != null){
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/dashboard')
    }
  }

  loginAction() {
    this.isSubmitting = true;
    let payload = {
      email:this.email,
      password: this.password,
  }
    this.userAuthService.login(payload)
    .then(({data}) => {
      localStorage.setItem('token', data.token)
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/dashboard')
      return data
    }).catch(error => {
      this.isSubmitting = false;
      if (error.response.data.errors != undefined) {
        this.validationErrors = error.response.data.message
      }
      if (error.response.data.error != undefined) {
        this.validationErrors = error.response.data.error
      }
      return error
    })
  }
}

src\app\login\login.component.html

<div class="row justify-content-md-center mt-5">
    <div class="col-4">
        <div class="card">
            <div class="card-body">
                <h5 class="card-title mb-4">Sign In</h5>
                <form >
                   
                    <p *ngIf="validationErrors.length > 0" class='text-center '>
                        <small class='text-danger'>{{validationErrors}}</small>
                    </p>
                    <div class="mb-3">
                        <label 
                            for="email"
                            class="form-label">
                                Email address
                        </label>
                        <input 
                            type="email"
                            class="form-control"
                            id="email"
                            name="email"
                            required
                            [(ngModel)]="email"
                        />
                    </div>
                    <div class="mb-3">
                        <label 
                            for="password"
                            class="form-label">Password
                        </label>
                        <input 
                            type="password"
                            class="form-control"
                            id="password"
                            name="password"
                            required
                            [(ngModel)]="password"
                        />
                    </div>
                    <div class="d-grid gap-2">
                        <button 
                            [disabled]="isSubmitting || (password.length <= 0 || email.length <= 0)"
                            (click)="loginAction()"
                            type="button"
                            class="btn btn-primary btn-block">Login</button>
                        <p class="text-center">Don't have account? <a routerLink="/register">Register here</a></p>
                    </div>
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

src\app\register\register.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { UserAuthService } from '../user-auth.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-register',
  imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule, FormsModule],
  templateUrl: './register.component.html',
  styleUrl: './register.component.css'
})
export class RegisterComponent implements OnInit{
  name:string = ''
  email:string = ''
  password:string = ''
  confirmPassword:string = ''
  isSubmitting:boolean = false
  validationErrors:any = []
 
  constructor(public userAuthService: UserAuthService, private router: Router) {}
 
  ngOnInit(): void {
    if(localStorage.getItem('token') != "" && localStorage.getItem('token') != null){
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/dashboard')
    }
  }
 
  registerAction() {
    this.isSubmitting = true;
    let payload = {
      name:this.name,
      email:this.email,
      password:this.password,
      confirmPassword:this.confirmPassword
    }
 
    this.userAuthService.register(payload)
    .then(({data}) => {
      localStorage.setItem('token', data.token)
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/dashboard')
      return data
    }).catch(error => {
      this.isSubmitting = false;
      if (error.response.data.errors != undefined) {
        this.validationErrors = error.response.data.errors
      }
      
      return error
    })
  }
}

src\app\register\register.component.html

<div class="row justify-content-md-center mt-5">
    <div class="col-4">
        <div class="card">
            <div class="card-body">
                <h5 class="card-title mb-4">Register</h5>
                <form >
                    <div class="mb-3">
                        <label
                            for="name"
                            class="form-label">Name
                        </label>
                        <input
                            type="text"
                            class="form-control"
                            id="name"
                            name="name"
                            [(ngModel)]="name"
                        />
                        <div *ngIf="validationErrors?.name != undefined" class="flex flex-col">
                            <small  class="text-danger">
                                {{validationErrors.name[0]}}
                            </small >
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="mb-3">
                        <label
                            for="email"
                            class="form-label">
                                Email address
                        </label>
                        <input
                            type="email"
                            class="form-control"
                            id="email"
                            name="email"
                            required
                            [(ngModel)]="email"
                        />
                        <div *ngIf="validationErrors?.email != undefined" class="flex flex-col">
                            <small  class="text-danger">
                                {{validationErrors.email[0]}}
                            </small >
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="mb-3">
                        <label
                            for="password"
                            class="form-label">Password
                        </label>
                        <input
                            type="password"
                            class="form-control"
                            id="password"
                            name="password"
                            required
                            [(ngModel)]="password"
                        />
                        <div *ngIf="validationErrors?.password != undefined" class="flex flex-col">
                            <small  class="text-danger">
                                {{validationErrors.password[0]}}
                            </small >
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="mb-3">
                        <label
                            for="confirm-password"
                            class="form-label">Confirm Password
                        </label>
                        <input
                            type="password"
                            class="form-control"
                            id="confirm-password"
                            name="confirm-password"
                            required
                            [(ngModel)]="confirmPassword"
                        />
                    </div>
                    <div class="d-grid gap-2">
                        <button
                            [disabled]="isSubmitting || (password.length <= 0 || email.length <= 0 || confirmPassword.length <= 0)"
                            (click)="registerAction()"
                            type="button"
                            class="btn btn-primary btn-block">Register Now</button>
                        <p className="text-center">Have already an account <a routerLink="/login">Login here</a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

src\app\dashboard\dashboard.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { UserAuthService } from '../user-auth.service';
import { User } from '../user/user';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-dashboard',
  imports: [CommonModule, RouterModule, FormsModule],
  templateUrl: './dashboard.component.html',
  styleUrl: './dashboard.component.css'
})
export class DashboardComponent implements OnInit{
  user!:User
  constructor(public userAuthService: UserAuthService, private router: Router) {}
 
  ngOnInit(): void {
   if(localStorage.getItem('token') == "" || localStorage.getItem('token') == null){
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/')
    }else {
      this.userAuthService.getUser().then(({data})=>{
        this.user = data;
      })
    }
  }
 
  logoutAction () {
    this.userAuthService.logout().then(()=>{
      localStorage.setItem('token', "")
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/')
    }).catch(()=>{
      localStorage.setItem('token', "")
      this.router.navigateByUrl('/')
    })
   
  }
}

src\app\dashboard\dashboard.component.html

<div class="row justify-content-md-center">
    <div class="col-12">
        <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light">
            <div class="container-fluid">
                <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Dashboard</a>
                <div class="d-flex">
                    <ul class="navbar-nav">
                        <li class="nav-item">
                            <span (click)="logoutAction()" class="nav-link" aria-current="page" style="cursor: pointer;">Logout</span>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
            </div>
        </nav>
        <h2 class="text-center mt-5">Welcome, {{user.name}}!</h2  >
    </div>
</div>

Step 5: Create a Service and Interface

We will now create the service and interface

ng generate service user-auth
ng generate interface user/user

Let’s update the code of service and interface.

src/app/user-auth.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import axios from 'axios';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class UserAuthService {

  constructor() { }

  login(data:any): Promise<any>{
    let payload = {
      email: data.email,
      password: data.password
    }
 
    return axios.post('/api/login', payload)
  }

  register(data:any): Promise<any>{
    let payload = {
      name: data.name,
      email: data.email,
      password: data.password,
      password_confirmation: data.confirmPassword
    }
    
    return axios.post('/api/register', payload)
  }

  getUser(): Promise<any>{

    return axios.get('/api/user', { headers:{Authorization: 'Bearer ' + localStorage.getItem('token')}})
  }

  logout(): Promise<any>{

    return axios.post('/api/logout',{}, { headers:{Authorization: 'Bearer ' + localStorage.getItem('token')}})
  }
}

src/app/user/user.ts

export interface User {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    email: string;
}

Step 6: Update App Routing and App Html

After creating the component we will then update the app routing and app HTML.

src\app\app.routes.ts

import { Routes } from '@angular/router';
import { LoginComponent } from './login/login.component';
import { RegisterComponent } from './register/register.component';
import { DashboardComponent } from './dashboard/dashboard.component';

export const routes: Routes = [
    { path: '', redirectTo: 'login', pathMatch: 'full'},
    { path: 'login', component: LoginComponent },
    { path: 'register', component: RegisterComponent },
    { path: 'dashboard', component: DashboardComponent },
];

src\app\app.component.html

<div class="container">
  <router-outlet />
</div>

Step 7: Run the app

We’re all done, what is left is to run the app.

ng serve

Open this URL:

http://localhost:4200/

Screenshots:

Login Page

Register Page

Dashboard Page