Professional AngularJS

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?

About the authors

Valeri Karpov is a NodeJS Engineer for MongoDB and maintains numerous MongoDB-related open-source JavaScript modules. He s been developing AngularJS applications since 2010, including MongoDB s internal continuous integration framework and BookaLokal s mobile site.

Diego Netto is a software consultant and open source evangelist. Founder of an independent consultancy agency, Diego helps startups and enterprise companies leverage the power of open source technologies to deliver intuitive products.

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