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Angular Services

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Angular Services

Overview of this book

A primary concern with modern day applications is that they need to be dynamic, and for that, data access from the server side, data authentication, and security are very important. Angular leverages its services to create such state-of-the-art dynamic applications. This book will help you create and design customized services, integrate them into your applications, import third-party plugins, and make your apps perform better and faster. This book starts with a basic rundown on how you can create your own Angular development environment compatible with v2 and v4. You will then use Bootstrap and Angular UI components to create pages. You will also understand how to use controllers to collect data and populate them into NG UIs. Later, you will then create a rating service to evaluate entries and assign a score to them. Next, you will create "cron jobs" in NG. We will then create a crawler service to find all relevant resources regarding a selected headline and generate reports on it. Finally, you will create a service to manage accuracy and provide feedback about troubled areas in the app created. This book is up to date for the 2.4 release and is compatible with the 4.0 release as well, and it does not have any code based on the beta or release candidates.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Angular Services
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up the seed project


The final requirement to get started would be an Angular seed project to shape the initial structure of our project. If you look at the public source code repositories, you can find several versions of these seeds. I prefer the official one for the following two reasons:

  • Custom-made seeds usually come with a personal twist depending on the developers taste. Although sometimes it might be a great help, since we are going to build everything from scratch and learn the fundamental concepts, they are not favorable to our project.

  • The official seeds are usually minimal. They are very slim and don't contain an overwhelming amount of 3rd party packages and environmental configurations.

Speaking about packages, you might be wondering what happened to the other JavaScript packages we needed for this application; we didn't install anything other than Node and NPM. The next section will answer this question.