Make Your Own AngularJS, Part 1: Scopes And Digest

Update: "Build Your Own AngularJS" is now available as an early-access eBook.

Angular is a mature and powerful JavaScript framework. It is also a large framework with many new concepts one needs to grasp before becoming truly effective. As web developers flock to Angular, many of them face the same hurdles. What exactly does the digest do? What are all the different approaches to defining a directive? What's the difference between a service and a provider?

While the Angular documentation is get...