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Mastering AngularJS Directives

By : Josh Kurz
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Mastering AngularJS Directives

By: Josh Kurz

Overview of this book

<p>AngularJS offers many features that allow the creation of rich, compelling web applications. Directives are by far the most important feature to incorporate into any skill set. This book starts off by teaching basic and advanced techniques for the art of directive writing. The different techniques are taught by a series of examples that showcase when and why certain directives should be created, based on given use cases. It moves on to explain more about how to harness the potential of AngularJS, by incorporating external libraries, optimizing code, and using brand new functions such as animations.<br /><br />Finally, the book includes an overview of the techniques and best practices that AngularJS developers need to keep in mind while developing their own applications. The overall goal of this book is to teach different aspects of directive writing that can be consumed by all levels.</p>

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering AngularJS Directives
Mastering AngularJS Directives
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Tools of the Trade
The Tools of the Trade
Introduction to directives
Summary
2
Building a Stopwatch Directive
Building a Stopwatch Directive
Breaking down the stopwatch
Writing the stopwatch
Summary
3
Harnessing External JavaScript Libraries with Directives
Harnessing External JavaScript Libraries with Directives
Incorporating third-party libraries
Testing directives that use third-party libraries
Wrapping the gauge.js file
Wrapping the fullCalendar.js file
Summary
4
Compiling the Advantages
Compiling the Advantages
Common use cases for compiling the DOM
Using transclusion in a directive
Creating recursive directives
Compiling templates and their many values
Introduction to the media player directive
Summary
5
Communication between Directives
Communication between Directives
Testing integrated directives
Using scope objects for communication
How to use isolate scopes
Collaborating with controllers
Summary
6
Working with Live Data
Working with Live Data
Techniques that drive directives
Directives can be in charge
Working with D3
Summary
7
Optimization and Code Quality
Optimization and Code Quality
AngularJS code quality
Optimization of the directives
Less bindings yield faster results
Summary
8
Directives and Animations
Directives and Animations
Providing animations
CSS-based animations
JavaScript-based animations
Summary
9
Conclusion
Conclusion
A directive's building blocks
Third-party libraries
The compile cycle
Testing directives
Directive intercommunication
Quality and performance
Animations
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Pete Bacon Darwin is a freelance programmer who is currently working with the AngularJS team at Google. He has a degree in Math from Cambridge University. He worked for a bunch of consulting companies before giving it all up to look after his kids and do coding in the background.

When he isn't coding or parenting, Pete teaches Aikido and wishes he could find time to do more climbing and mountaineering.

Pete co-authored Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS, Packt Publishing.

Darius Riggins is a veteran full-stack developer who focuses on solving challenging problems with creative solutions.

Ruoyu Sun is a designer and developer living in Hong Kong. He is passionate about programming and has contributed to several open source projects. He founded several tech start-ups using a variety of technology before going into the industry. He is the author of the book Designing for XOOPS, O'Reilly Media.

I would like to thank all my friends and family, who have always supported me.

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