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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

By : Vinci J Rufus
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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

4.3 (7)
By: Vinci J Rufus
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Overview of this book

If you are a web application developer interested in using AngularJS for a real-life project, then this book is for you. As a prerequisite, knowledge of JavaScript and HTML is expected, and a working knowledge of AngularJS is preferred.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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About JavaScript MVC frameworks
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How AngularJS was born
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The idea behind this book
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application
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1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application
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Delving into Single Page Apps
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Anatomy of a simple AngularJS app
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Models and views
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Building an Address Book App
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Styling the app
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Adding contacts to the Address Book
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Summary
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2. Setting Up Your Rig
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2. Setting Up Your Rig
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Setting up Node.js
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Setting up Grunt
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Yeoman – the workflow tool
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Unit testing with Karma
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Using Protractor for End-to-End tests
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Summary
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3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS
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3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS
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Understanding the application that we will Prototype
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Introducing Grid Layouts and Bootstrap
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Understanding the grid system
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Introducing Angular UI
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Prototyping the Healthy Living website
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Summary
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4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App
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4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App
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Understanding the response from a REST API
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Jump starting your app development with Angular Seed
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Mark-up our Layout
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Creating the routes
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Understanding AngularJS services
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Writing your first factory service
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Using promise for asynchronous calls
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Displaying data from the JSON response
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Unit testing our application
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Mocking $http during Unit testing
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Creating a Pinterest style layout
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Adding actions to the buttons
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Summary
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5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App
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5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App
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Understanding the Facebook SDK
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Setting up our project
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Delving into AngularJS directives
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Adding a Facebook login
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Getting the user's friend list
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Getting your friends' profile pictures and birthdays
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Adding some CSS styles
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Adding in the logout link
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Writing automated tests
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6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App
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6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App
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Understanding HTML5 Web Storage
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Building the Expense Manager App
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Building the Add Expense form
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Building a bar chart directive based on D3
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Summarizing the expenses by categories
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Making the app responsive
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Adding touch events
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Adding page transitions using ngAnimate
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Making the app feel like a native app
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Adding additional features
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7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack
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7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack
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Why the MEAN stack?
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Getting started with the MEAN stack
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Building the server-side app
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Securing your admin section
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Integrating AngularJS with an ExpressJS project
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Generating SEO-friendly URLs using HTML5 mode
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Building the admin section for CRUD operations
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Building a custom module for global notification
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Setting up an Interceptor to detect responses
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Building the frontend of our CMS
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Displaying the content of a page
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8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS
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8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS
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Understanding the various services in Amazon AWS
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Delving into AWS deployment architectures
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Deploying our app in a Server-less Architecture on AWS
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Getting your app ready for production deployment
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Performance
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9. Building an E-Commerce Store
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9. Building an E-Commerce Store
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Backend as a Service
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Building a BaaS platform on AWS
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Creating our e-commerce app
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Prototyping our application
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Creating our application-level controller
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Integrating AWS JS SDK with our application
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Building our Add Products page
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Creating our product details page
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A. AngularJS Resources
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A. AngularJS Resources
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Official resources
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Recommended AngularJS modules
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Boiler plates
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Learning resources
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Good friends with AngularJS (third-party tools and services)
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Core team members and knowledgeable people to follow
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Index
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Index

Chapter 4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App

In the previous chapter, we saw how to build an application prototype using static data models.

During the actual development, we would obviously like to work with live dynamic data and would need it to be tied to a backend. In AngularJS, the easiest and most common way of interacting with backend application is via Representational State Transfer (REST) web services, using JavaScript Object Notations (JSON) formats.

In this chapter, we will see how to build an app that will display the latest box office movies for a selected country. We will make use of the easy-to-use web service APIs from www.rottentomatoes.com.

Some of the things that we will learn in this chapter are as follows:

  • What are factories, services, and providers in AngularJS, and how they differ from each other
  • How to make calls to a web service using the $http service
  • How Dependency Injection (DI) works
  • Understand how asynchronous calls are made and the concept...

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