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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

Updating the collector component


To see a service in action, first let's update our previous wire-frame and modify the template. Let's say we need to see a list of news headlines which we can select among them and (later in Chapter 4, The Rating Service – Data Management) decide which ones have the higher value (rate) for investigation.

Showing a list of news headlines means we have to implement a mechanism which loops through the available items and displays them. Open the Collector component first and create new properties as follows:

// app/collector/collector.component.ts 
import {Component} from '@angular/core'; 
@Component({ 
  selector: 'sh-collector', 
  templateUrl: './collector.html' 
}) 
 
export class CollectorComponent { 
  caption = "Some news worth investigating"; 
  headlines  = [ 
    "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",  
    "consectetuer adipiscing elit",  
    "Integer tincidunt Cras dapibus", 
    "Quia dolori non voluptas " 
  ]; 
} 

For now just use the hard-coded data. We...