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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

Handling authentication and authorization


Most, if not all, apps have a requirement to authenticate/authorize user access. We may argue that authentication and authorization are more of a server concern than a client concern, and that is correct. Still, the client side needs to adapt and integrate with the authentication and authorization requirement imposed by the server.

Any typical Angular application first loads partial views and then makes calls to pull data from the server and binds them to the views. Clearly, the views and the remote data API are the two assets that need to be secured.

To guard these resources, you need to understand how a typical application is secured on the server. There are primarily two broad approaches for securing any web applications: cookie-based authentication and token-based authentication. Each of them requires different handling on the client part. The next two sections describe how we can integrate with either of these approaches.

Cookie-based authentication...