What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started, introduces you to the AngularJS framework. We create a super simple app in AngularJS that highlights some core features of the framework.
Chapter 2, Building Our First App – 7 Minute Workout, will teach us how to build our rst real AngularJS app. In the process, we learn more about the framework's MVC constructs and are introduced to scopes and binding capabilities of the framework. We learn about code organization using modules and dependency injection, look at view routing in action, and learn how to use lters.
Chapter 3, More AngularJS Goodness for 7 Minute Workout, focuses on adding the bells and whistles to the 7 Minute Workout app and in the process touches upon into some new Angular capabilities. This chapter covers Angular services, digest cycles, animation support, lters and few other concepts.
Chapter 4, Building Personal Trainer, introduces a new exercise where we morph
7 Minute Workout into a generic Personal Trainer app. The new app has the capability to create new workout plans other than the original 7 Minute Workout app. In this chapter, we exclusively focus on AngularJS form capabilities.
Chapter 5, Adding Data Persistence to Personal Trainer, covers retrieving and saving data to the server. We augment our Personal Trainer with data load and data persistence capabilities. Server interaction and data persistence have been ignored in all the previous chapters.
Chapter 6, Working with Directives, explains directives by building some of our own custom directives for the Personal Trainer app. Directives are the most powerful and most misunderstood feature of AngularJS.
Chapter 7, Testing the AngularJS App, highlights how to use the AngularJS testing constructs within Personal Trainer as AngularJS was built with testability in mind.
Chapter 8, Handling Common Scenarios, provides some practical tips and guidance around scenarios that we might encounter while developing apps on this framework. We will cover scenarios such as structuring the app for complex views, inter controller/directive communication, common framework pitfalls, authentication and authorization, code organization for large size apps, and other similar scenarios.
