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AngularJS Essentials

By : Rodrigo Branas
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AngularJS Essentials

By: Rodrigo Branas

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<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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AngularJS Essentials
Rodrigo Branas
Aug, 2014 | 180 pages
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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 Reviewers

Andrei M. Eichler is a young developer with a great passion for learning. His main experiences include working with large Postgres databases and Java, and he is now venturing into Scala, performant JavaScript, and web application development.

Cleberson C. C. Faccin is a graduate in Systems Information from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Since 2004, he has been working in the field of software development. During these 10 years, he has worked with several technologies, from mainframes to applications of mobile devices. Currently, his focus is on his work in JavaScript, where he is building applications for mobiles with JavaScript.

Ruoyu Sun is a designer and developer living in Hong Kong. He is passionate about programming and has contributed to several open source projects. He is the founder of several tech start-ups using a variety of technologies before working in the industry. He is the author of Designing for XOOPS, O'Reilly Media.

I would like to thank all my friends and family who have always supported me.

Felipe Trevisol is a software architect who loves research, travel, and playing guitar. He has worked with SOA and systems integration.

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