AngularJS Essentials

by Rodrigo Branas

Design and construct reusable, maintainable, and modular web applications with AngularJS About This Book
Explore and understand the features of AngularJS to construct advanced web applications from scratch
Understand how to apply the most important concepts of the framework like directives, expressions, filters, modules, and services
Experience high-quality delivery by automating tests and optimizing the distribution of the application using tools like Jasmine and Grunt
Who This Book Is For

This book is strongly recommended for those who have a passion for web development and who are looking for a framework that can provide a reusable, maintainable, and modular way to create applications and increase their productivity.

What You Will Learn
Create reusable components with directives
Explore filters to manipulate and transform data
Discover more about the two-way data binding mechanism
Easily validate data from the user's form
Create services in order to keep the business logic under control
Understand and explore the dependency injection feature
Follow the best practices of the framework to organize and modularize your application
Automate your project's workflow and learn everything you need to know about unit testing with AngularJS
In Detail

This book is a practical guide filled with real-world examples that will help you discover the best practices of the AngularJS framework, covering its most important concepts such as directives, expressions, filters, and modules and guiding you through the steps of building your very own web application.

You will start by learning how to create reusable components with directives, experiencing an expressive way of developing software. Then we will move on to cover data handling, and you will learn how to use the various features of the AngularJS framework to accomplish any challenge related to presenting, transforming, and validating data on a user's interface.

After that, we will explore the secrets of the dependency injection mechanism available in AngularJS, bringing reuse and testability to your application by decoupling the layers. The book will also cover the best practices of using the framework and how to automate the test and the project's workflow.

180 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 21, 2014