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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making a chart component with Angular directives


Angular directives allow us to extend the HTML syntax in a very powerful way—by adding new attributes and elements. This allows us to create components that feel native: from date and time pickers to data grids, charts, and visualizations.

Such components can then be reused without adding initialization code to our controllers. We simply tell the component what model it should bind to and it will automatically update its appearance to reflect any changes in the model.

In this recipe, we're going to make a chart directive using Flot to draw our chart. In the process, we will learn about some of the many powerful features of Angular directives.

Getting ready

We need to download Flot from http://www.flotcharts.org/ and extract the ZIP archive into our recipe directory, creating a sub-directory called flot.

How to do it...

Let's write the code.

  1. Create a file named index.html. It will include all the necessary scripts and a view that displays a chart...