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AngularJS by Example

By : Chandermani
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AngularJS by Example

By: Chandermani

Overview of this book

<p>AngularJS makes web JavaScript web development less painful and more organized – it’s unsurprising that today it’s one of the most popular tools in web development.</p> <p>AngularJS by Example helps you get started with this essential web development framework quickly and easily, guiding you through AngularJS by showing you how to create your own real-world applications. By adopting this approach, you can bridge the gap between learning and doing immediately, as you follow the examples to learn the impressive features of Angular and experience a radically simple–and powerful–approach to web development.</p> <p>You’ll begin by creating a simple Guess the Number game, which will help you get to grips with the core components of Angular, including its MVC architecture, and learn how each part interacts with one another. This will give you a solid foundation of knowledge from which you can begin to build more complex applications, such as a 7 minute workout app and an extended personal trainer app. By creating these applications yourself, you will find out how AngularJS manages client-server interactions and how to effectively utilize directives to develop applications further. You’ll also find information on testing your app with tools such as Jasmine, as well as tips and tricks for some of the most common challenges of developing with AngularJS.</p> <p>AngularJS by Example is a unique web development book that will help you get to grips with AngularJS and explore a powerful solution for developing single page applications.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
AngularJS by Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The app controller


To implement the controller, we need to outline the behavior of the application. What we are going to do in 7 Minute Workout app is:

  1. Start the workout.

  2. Show the workout in progress and show the progress indicator.

  3. After the time elapses for an exercise, show the next exercise.

  4. Repeat this process till all exercises are over.

This gives us a fair idea about the controller behavior, so let's start with the implementation.

Add a new JavaScript file workout.js to the 7MinWorkout folder. All code detailed in the line later goes into this file until stated otherwise.

We are going to use the Module API to declare our controller and this is how it looks:

angular.module('7minWorkout').controller('WorkoutController', function($scope){
});

Here, we retrieve the 7minWorkout module that we created earlier in app.js (see the Adding app modules section) using the angular.module('7minWorkout') method and then we call the controller method on the module to register our 7minWorkout controller.

The...