angular-workshop
This repo contains a demo app for the DBC Angular workshop
Setup
- Install node, bower, grunt then
- npm install
- bower install
- grunt serve
Links
- Angular blog http://blog.angularjs.org/ - good for news etc.
- Angular modules directory http://ngmodules.org/
- Setting up a fresh angular install with Yeoman (note you will need
npm install --save karma-jasmine karma-chrome-launcherfor tests to pass) - Protractor for e2e tests
- Protractor syntax
- Restangular - an improved version of the built-in $resource
- Angular UI is recommended if you application has anything other than very basic routing needs
- Angular and Rails: angular-js-rails-resource recommended if you are using rails
- Conceptual overview of Angular for Jquery folks
DOM Notes
- If you are touching the DOM, always use a directive - directive docs, Simple Diretive, Directive tutorial
- You can get by without understanding the scope digest cycle initially but eventually it will bite you Simple Overview - Complex Overview
- always use angular.element to access the DOM
- Gotchya: ng-include expects an expression, strings must be explicit
Auth
- hosted services can save you a ton of time when prototyping but be ready to switch them out for your own backend Firebase would be our main pick though Hoist is a local alternative
- if rolling your own consider token based authentication