AngularJS by example

by Chandermani

AngularJS by example

454 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2015

Reviews

[Ravi Kiran · Rating 5 out of 5]

A typical technology book starts with concepts on the technology and it continues to explain the technology throughout the book with independent examples. This book takes a different approach and start building an application right from beginning of the book. It continues adding features to the same example while explaining different concepts of the framework and covering internal details wherever needed.

Presentation of the entire book can be summarized into following the points:

- Starts with a brief discussion on problems with building large JavaScript applications. Explains need of patterns like MVC in the ecosystem
- Doesn't build a regular "Hello World" sample, instead builds an interesting sample to cover basic constructs of the framework
- Before building any step of the sample, the author spends time in explaining the problem, then tells which feature solves the problem and then explains the feature thoroughly before implementing the next step
- Covers a number of tips through examples
- Makes good use of the notes section to clarify some basics and lesser known facts
- No concept is explained independently. Most of the necessary features of the framework are covered with right examples that are very close to real world problems
- I particularly like the way some features like animations, ng-model, interceptors and testing are explained in the book
- Last chapter focuses on a few common scenarios and provides advice containing best practices to solve these problems

Read full review on my blog.

[Arthur Zhuk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Go through building a workout application in Angularjs 1.3. Great in depth explanations to all the pieces as you go by step by step building a solid workout app. Got through half the book including examples but recently switch to Reactjs as that's where the trend is heading it seems.