AngularJS Training Objectives
Students will:
- Understand the design of single-page applications and how AngularJS facilitates their development
- Properly separate the model, view, and controller layers of your application and implement them using AngularJS
- Master AngularJS expressions, filters, and scopes
- Build Angular forms
- Elegantly implement Ajax in your AngularJS applications
- Write AngularJS directives
- Unit test and end-to-end test your AngularJS applications
AngularJS Training Outline
Introduction to AngularJS
What does AngularJS do for me?
Who controls AngularJS?
How can I get AngularJS?
Our first AngularJS application
A basic application
Using angular-seed
The pieces of the puzzle
How it fits together
Model, View, Controller from the AngularJS Perspective
Single Page Applications
What do we mean by Single Page Application?
Creating Angular Modules
Using Angular's Routing Service
Creating a Skeleton Single Page Application
Controllers
Where Controllers fit in, and what they do, from Angular’s perspective
Managing Scope
Setting up Behavior
Building a basic controller
A more advanced controller
Models
How to create a model
Explicit models
Implicit models
Views
Angular's take on the View: a little bit different
Tying a View to a Controller
Tying a View to a model
Expressions
Expressions are lightweight code snippets
Expression capabilities
Limitations
The border between expressions and $eval
Filters
Standard filters
Writing your own filter
Tying filters together
Scopes
What are scopes?
What do scopes provide?
Scope lifecycle
Scopes as glue between controller and view
Scope hierarchies
Scope and events
Angular Forms
Angular forms vs HTML forms
Angular form controls
Form events
The form controller
Form validation
Ajax, Data, and Angular
High level interactions with servers
Low-level server interactions with $http
The deferred/promises API
Making RESTful Service calls with $resource
Directives
Teaching HTML new tricks
Binding text and attributes
Directive processing lifecycle
A basic directive
Directives and scopes
Creating reusable directives
Turning directives into components
