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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

Getting started with $resource


Our discussion on the $resource service should start with understanding why we require $resource. The $http service seems to be capable of performing all types of server interactions. Why is this abstraction required and against what type of system does the $resource service work?

To answer all these questions, we have to introduce a new breed of service (server side, not Angular services): RESTful services.

RESTful API services

"There is an API for that!"

Apple did not coin this, but this indeed is a reality now. There is an API for everything. Almost all of the public and private services (Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on) out there have an API. And if the API works over HTTP, there is a pretty good chance that the API is RESTful in nature. We don't have to look far; MongoLab too has a RESTful API interface and we have used it!

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that defines the components of a system as resources. Actions...