Professional AngularJS

✍ Scribed by Karpov, Valeri;Netto, Diego

• Publisher: Wrox
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 399
• Series: Wrox Programmer to Programmer
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 auto.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

AngularJS;Application software--Development;Electronic books;Application software -- Development