Exploring AngularJS

AngularJS is an open source, client-side JavaScript framework developed by Google. It's full of features and is really well documented. It has almost become a standard framework in the development of single-page applications. The official site of AngularJS, http://angularjs.org, provides a well-structured documentation. As the framework is widely used, there is a lot of material in the form of articles and video tutorials. As a JavaScript library, it collaborates pretty well with Node.js. In this chapter, we will build a simple blog with a control panel.

Before we start developing our application, let's first take a look at the framework. AngularJS gives us very good control over the data on our page. We don't have to think about selecting elements from the DOM and filling them with values. Thankfully, due to the available data-binding, we may update the data in the JavaScript part and see the change in the HTML part. This is also true for the reverse...