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AngularJS Essentials

By : Rodrigo Branas
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AngularJS Essentials

By: Rodrigo Branas

Overview of this book

<p>This book is a practical guide filled with real-world examples that will help you discover the best practices of the AngularJS framework, covering its most important concepts such as directives, expressions, filters, and modules and guiding you through the steps of building your very own web application.</p> <p>You will start by learning how to create reusable components with directives, experiencing an expressive way of developing software. Then we will move on to cover data handling, and you will learn how to use the various features of the AngularJS framework to accomplish any challenge related to presenting, transforming, and validating data on a user's interface.</p> <p>After that, we will explore the secrets of the dependency injection mechanism available in AngularJS, bringing reuse and testability to your application by decoupling the layers. The book will also cover the best practices of using the framework and how to automate the test and the project's workflow.</p>

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
AngularJS Essentials
AngularJS Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with AngularJS
Getting Started with AngularJS
Introduction to AngularJS
Architectural concepts
Setting up the framework
Organizing the code
Summary
2
Creating Reusable Components with Directives
Creating Reusable Components with Directives
What is a directive?
Using AngularJS built-in directives
Refactoring application organization
Creating our own directives
Animation
Summary
3
Data Handling
Data Handling
Expressions
Filters
Form validation
Summary
4
Dependency Injection and Services
Dependency Injection and Services
Dependency injection
Creating services
Using AngularJS built-in services
Summary
5
Scope
Scope
Two-way data binding
Best practices using the scope
The $rootScope object
Scope Broadcasting
Summary
6
Modules
Modules
Creating modules
Recommended modules
Summary
7
Unit Testing
Unit Testing
The Jasmine testing framework
Testing AngularJS components
Summary
8
Automating the Workflow
Automating the Workflow
Automating the workflow with Grunt
Managing packages with Bower
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Rodrigo Branas is a software architect, author, and international speaker on software development based in Brazil, with more than 12 years of experience in developing enterprise applications.

Lately, he has been participating in the development of many successful products based on the AngularJS framework. A major part of these applications were made available to the education industry, and are now used by thousands of users across the country.

He is also the founder of Agile Code, a consultancy and training company that works effectively with architects, developers, designers, and testers in order to produce high-quality products.

He graduated in Computer Science and has an MBA degree in Project Management. He is certified in SCJA, SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, and SCBCD from Sun Microsystems; PMP from Project Management Institute; MCP from Microsoft; and CSM from Scrum Alliance.

In the past few years, he has dedicated himself to spreading knowledge in the software development community. Also, he is the author of Java Magazine, one of the most recognized technical publications in Brazil. His website address is http://www.agilecode.com.br. He can be contacted at and you can follow him on Twitter at @rodrigobranas.

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