Professional AngularJS

**A comprehensive guide to AngularJS, Google's open-source client-side framework for app development.** Most of the existing guides to AngularJS struggle to provide simple and understandable explanations for more advanced concepts. As a result, some developers who understand all the basic concepts of AngularJS struggle when it comes to building more complex real-world applications. __Professional AngularJS__ provides a thorough understanding of AngularJS, covering everything from basic concepts, such as directives and data binding, to more advanced concepts like transclusion, build systems, and automated integration testing. In addition to explaining the features of AngularJS, this book distills real-world experience on how these features fit together to enable teams to work together more effectively in building extraordinary apps. * Offers a more thorough and comprehensive approach to AngularJS * Includes pointers to other advanced topics * Lets you build a simple application from scratch, explaining basic building blocks along the way for quick hands-on learning AngularJS was recently called the "Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework" by The Code Project. It's an open source client side framework maintained by Google that greatly simplifies frontend development, making it easy and fun to write complex web apps.The online documentation and existing books on the subject lack simple explanations of some of the more advanced concepts, and how they work together. As a result, many developers get used to the basic concepts of AngularJS fairly quickly, but struggle when it comes to building more complex (real world) applications."Beginning AngularJS" covers everything from basic concepts, such as directives and data binding, to more advanced concepts, like providers, injectors, and scope, giving the reader a thorough understanding of AngularJS. Chapter 1: Introducing AngularJS - introduce the reader to AngularJS and explain what it is without showing any code.Chapter 2: Building a Simple AngularJS Application - jump into building a simple AngularJS application from scratch, explaining the most basic building blocks as we go along.Chapter 3: AngularJS Architecture and How it Fits Together - It's time to take a closer look at the most common parts of AngularJS, and how they all fit together.Chapter 4: Building an Application with Templates, Location and Routing - everything needed to build an application with multiple views and controllers, Chapter 5: Getting Advanced with Data Binding - a closer look at more advanced ways of binding data to templates in AngularJS. We'll cover everything from the built-in convenience methods to manually changing values and notifying AngularJS. We'll also talk a bit about how to avoid common performance pitfalls.Chapter 6: How to Extend HTML with Directives - a closer look at directives, one of AngularJS's key features, and learn how to extend HTML by encapsulating code in reusable components.Chapter 7: The What, When, and Why of Services, Factories and Providers - difference between services, factories and providers, and when to use what.Chapter 8: Using Low and High Level Server Communication - The full potential of a client side web application isn't released until you connect it to a server. This chapter deep dives into the two communication services included in AngularJS, the low level $http service used for direct requests, and the high level $resource service used to wrap a REST API.Chapter 9: Testing and Debugging AngularJS Applications - AngularJS is built to be easy and fast to test, in this chapter we'll discuss the techniques and tools available. We'll also talk a bit about what to do when things don't work as expected.Chapter 10: Moving On - wrap things up by giving the reader pointers to more advanced topics, and further reading that will be useful when working with AngularJS.This book is a comprehensive guide to AngularJS, not only covering each feature separately, but also how to combine them into working applications. The reader should have basic programming knowledge and be familiar with JavaScript and how the web works (HTML, CSS, HTTP etc.) INTRODUCTION xxv CHAPTER 1: BUILDING A SIMPLE ANGULARJS APPLICATION 1 What You Are Building 1 What You Will Learn 3 Step 1: Scaffolding Your Project with Yeoman 4 Step 2: Creating Watchlists 9 Step 3: Configuring Client-Side Routing 19 Step 4: Creating a Navigation Bar 23 Step 5: Adding Stocks 26 Step 6: Integrating with Yahoo Finance 32 Step 7: Creating the Stock Table 36 Step 8: Inline Form Editing 40 Step 9: Formatting Currency 44 Step 10: Animating Price Changes 46 Step 11: Creating the Dashboard 49 Production Deployment 53 CHAPTER 2: INTELLIGENT WORKFLOW AND BUILD TOOLS 57 What Can Tooling Do for Me? 57 What Is Bower? 58 What Is Grunt? 60 What Is Gulp? 73 What Is Yeoman? 84 CHAPTER 3: ARCHITECTURE 95 Why Is Architecture Important? 95 Controllers, Services, and Directives 96 The ModelService Paradigm 102 Exposing API Using Controllers 108 Organizing Your Code with Modules 109 Directory Structure 113 Best Practices for Structuring User Authentication 127 CHAPTER 4: DATA BINDING 131 What Is Data Binding? 131 What Data Binding Can Do for You 134 CHAPTER 5: DIRECTIVES 157 What Is a Directive? 157 A Deeper Understanding of Directives 167 Changing Directive Templates at Runtime 179 CHAPTER 6: TEMPLATES, LOCATION, AND ROUTING 185 Part I: Templates 187 Part II: The $location Service 196 Part III: Routing 200 CHAPTER 7: SERVICES, FACTORIES, AND PROVIDERS 217 A Brief Overview of Dependency Injection 218 Building Your Own Services 221 Common Use Cases for Services 232 Utilizing Built-In Providers 236 CHAPTER 8: SERVER COMMUNICATION 243 Why Will I Learn? 243 Introduction to Promises 244 Services for HTTP Requests 246 Consuming the Twitter REST API 262 Scaffolding a REST API with StrongLoop LoopBack 264 Using Web Sockets with AngularJS 270 Using Firebase with AngularJS 273 CHAPTER 9: TESTING AND DEBUGGING ANGULARJS APPLICATIONS 277 AngularJS Testing Philosophy 277 DOM Integration Tests 292 Debugging AngularJS Apps 309 CHAPTER 10: MOVING ON 315 Using Angular-UI Bootstrap 316 Hybrid Mobile Apps with the Ionic Framework 325 Integrating Open Source JavaScript with AngularJS 331 AngularJS and ECMAScript 6 341 Conclusion 343 APPENDIX: RESOURCES 345 INDEX 347 A comprehensive guide to AngularJS, Google's open-source client-side framework for app development Most of the existing guides to AngularJS struggle to provide simple and understandable explanations for more advanced concepts. As a result, some developers who understand all the basic concepts of AngularJS struggle when it comes to building more complex real-world applications. Professional AngularJS provides a thorough understanding of AngularJS, covering everything from basic concepts, such as directives and data binding, to more advanced concepts like transclusion, build systems, and automated integration testing. In addition to explaining the features of AngularJS, this book distills real-world experience on how these features fit together to enable teams to work together more effectively in building extraordinary apps. Offers a more thorough and comprehensive approach to AngularJS than other guides to the subject Includes pointers to other advanced topics and further reading for those who want to take their skills even further Lets readers build a simple application from scratch, explaining basic building blocks along way for quick hands-on learning

A comprehensive guide to AngularJS, Google's open-source client-side framework for app development. Most of the existing guides to AngularJS struggle to provide simple and understandable explanations for more advanced concepts. As a result, some developers who understand all the basic concepts of AngularJS struggle when it comes to building more complex real-world applications. Professional AngularJS provides a thorough understanding of AngularJS, covering everything from basic concepts, such as directives and data binding, to more advanced concepts like transclusion, build systems, and automated integration testing. In addition to explaining the features of AngularJS, this book distills real-world experience on how these features fit together to enable teams to work together more effectively in building extraordinary apps.

• Offers a more thorough and comprehensive approach to AngularJS
• Includes pointers to other advanced topics
• Lets you build a simple application from scratch, explaining basic building blocks along the way for quick hands-on learning

This book provides a thorough understanding of AngularJS, covering everything from basic concepts, such as directives and data binding, to more advanced concepts like transclusion, build systems, and automated integration testing. In addition to explaining the features of AngularJS, it distills real-world experience on how these features fit together to enable teams to work together more effectively in building extraordinary apps. Features: offers a more thorough and comprehensive approach to AngularJS; includes pointers to other advanced topics; and lets you build a simple application from scratch, explaining basic building blocks along the way for quick hands-on learning. -- Edited summary from book Angularjs Is Quickly Becoming The Leading Next-generation Client-side Web Framework, Enabling The Building And Testing Of Sophisticated Browser-based Applications. This Book Covers Everything From Building Your First Angularjs Application To More Advanced Topics Like Transclusion, Build Systems, And Automated Integration Testing.