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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

Summary


We now have an app that can do a lot of stuff. It can run workouts, load workouts, save and update them, and track history. And if we look back, we have achieved this with minimal code. I can bet if we try this in standard jQuery or some other framework, it would require substantially more effort as compared to AngularJS.

We started the chapter by providing a MongoDB database on MongoLab servers. Since MongoLab provided a RESTful API to access the database, we saved some time by not setting up our own server infrastructure.

The first AngularJS construct that we touched upon was the $http service. $http is the primary service for connecting to any HTTP backend.

You learned about the $http config object and how it is used to configure any HTTP request. We also saw how the standard $http configuration helps us to readily consume server endpoints that consume and return JSON data.

You also learned how the complete $http infrastructure is based on promises and callback invocation and is totally...