Instant AngularJS Starter

by Dan Menard

In Detail AngularJS is a Javascript framework designed by engineers at Google to help people like you and me build powerful, dynamic web applications with ease. It’s fast, efficient, and highly customizable — perfect for any project. "AngularJS Starter" is designed to get you ramped up on AngularJS as quickly and efficiently as possible. By the end of this book, you’ll possess all the knowledge you need to make full-featured, real-life applications with AngularJS. The code samples are reusable, and specifically intended to give you a head start on your next project. This book will transform your curiosity about AngularJS into a set of production-ready AngularJS skills, through a broad overview of the framework and deep dives into its key features. You’ll start with basic AngularJS syntax, and then jump head-first into a life-sized example of how to build scalable AngularJS applications. With a foundational understanding of AngularJS in place, you’ll learn about its advanced features in depth, one by one, until you’ve mastered them all. Before you know it, "AngularJS Starter" will have you ramped up on AngularJS and back to building cutting-edge applications for the web, faster and more effectively than ever. Approach Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This book is written in an easy-to-read style, with a strong emphasis on real-world, practical examples. Step-by-step explanations are provided for performing important tasks. Who this book is for This book is for web developers familiar with Javascript. It doesn’t cover the history of AngularJS, and it’s not a pitch to convince you that AngularJS is the best framework on the entire web. It’s a guide to help you learn everything you need to know about AngularJS in as few pages and with as many examples as possible.

Genres: Programming, Technical

66 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Igor · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit short but informative book about Angular 1. It gives in a nutshell the basic concepts and what makes Angular different from other JavaScript frameworks. I would say it is for experienced JavaScript developers.

[Oleksandr Golovatyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for start learning AngularJS. But not special. It simple but I want more information about Angular

[Tomasz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can suggest "Instant AngularJS Starter" to everyone starting their adventure with AngularJS and also for developers that have some experience with this library. In my opinion it is well structured and allows much easier start that online documentation available on the official site. From the other side, definitely it is not a best choice for those using Angular extensively for a year or so, as I think they won't find anything new inside.
With my experience lasting only a few months, I have found many useful stuff.
On the other hand I was really missing one subject: testing. Definitely this is the area that strongly distinguishes AngularJS from other libraries and frameworks and in my opinion it should be covered in every, even short, book about this library.
But in spite of that, I was really happy to read this book and my knowledge about Angular increased significantly after finishing it. Some thing were new and some were shifted to a correct locations in my head.

[Invisible · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a nice *second* book for AngularJS. Try to get your feet web first with something like "Shaping up with Angular.js" on CodeSchool.com

Since it is a short book, it moves pretty fast for a complete neophyte. You might get easily confused and give up on this framework, and then you'll just miss out on having a powerful framework in your toolbox.

On the other hand, it does give nice overview of the complete framework, and you'll certainly get a few ideas and/or AngularJS way of thinking in your first projects.

Note that it's written with Angular 1.0.x in mind, and we're at 1.3.x now. Please look at AngularJS Style Guide to get up to speed on common idioms and practices of AngularJS which crystalized after the book was written.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

I couldn't really understand what is the purpose of this book. As some reviewers already mentioned, it looks more like a series of blog posts, not like a book. Angular is a big piece of technology, so a book, which covers all of its parts could be as big as Flanagan's Definitive JS guide. If it is a "starter book" (which is, as I understand, a book for beginners), it should contain more visual information, e.g. pictures of resulting web pages after some piece of code, schemes, etc. I was reading this book right at the time when I was digging into Angular, and I can't really tell that this book was more helpful for me than official Angular docs. But I also think, it could be helpful for someone else, so maybe, you should give it a try

[Ivan Fraixedes · Rating 4 out of 5]

I regard that it is a good book to read if you woud like to start to use Angular besides to read the guide of the oficial Angular web site this book is provide a lot of hints that allows to undertand better the Angular framewor, how to use to create a well architecture for your web application and based in one example you can see in a bit the strenghts of Angular and its main features which do of it an astonishing frontend web framework

[Stephen Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very high level overview

I was looking for a book that would allow me to get up and running with AngularJS. The examples are briefly discussed, and serve as a teaser of functionality available in the framework. The little 's to actual reference material at sheepdog the book are basically Googling AngularJS would provide. This teaser makes AngularJS look promising, Bristol terse to really get one started.

[Camilo Lopes · Rating 2 out of 5]

It has a good overview about angularJS but it is not hands-on book. The example are very pool.

[Mihnea Simian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not impressive, but not bad either for its length and purpose. Better than skimming an online api documentation to get you started.

[Ladislav Prskavec · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Alvaro Tejada Galindo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and to the point...just the book you need to get started with AngularJS...pretty well done and very useful...

[Dani · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book made a lot of assumptions that you knew the basics of Angular, where I thought this would have taught the basics. At least it was short.

[SimrendraSingh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very basic book. Suitable for beginners/freshers who do not know about angularJS. Frankly speaking, information mentioned in the book can be read on official angularJS website for free.