/angular-1-mini

Angular 1x - Day 1 - Mini

Project Summary

In this project we'll create a basic Angular application from scratch. Getting used to structuring your Angular application is an important skill to get right. Many times as beginners the hardest part about Angular is figuring out where to put stuff. Hopefully this project will start you on the right path so you can correctly structure all your Angular projects in the future.

Setup

  • Fork and clone this repository.
  • Open the project directory in your coding IDE.

Step 1

Summary

In this step, we'll create the skeleton of our HTML. This includes an index.html, styles.css, and a js folder.

Instructions

  • Create an index.html file.
    • Be sure to include a DOCTYPE tag at the top.
    • Be sure to include a html tag.
    • Be sure to include a head and title tag.
    • Be sure to include a body tag.
  • Add a paragraph element to the html that says 'Woo'.
  • Create a styles.css file.
    • Add css that changes the font color of the paragraph element to red.
  • Link styles.css in your index.html file.
    • Once you have confirmed your styles.css is linked in your index.html file, remove the paragraph element from index.html and the styles from styles.css.

Solution

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My first angular app!</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>

  <body>
    
  </body>
</html>

Step 2

Summary

In this step, we'll turn our plain web application into an Angular application. We'll do this by acquiring angular's CDN, specifying our application's name, and specifying our main controller's name.

Instructions

  • Open a browser window and navigate to Angular JS
  • Click on the download button and then click on DOWNLOAD ANGULARJS and copy the CDN link.
  • Open index.html and add a script tag that links to the Angular CDN just before the closing body tag.
  • Add a ng-app attribute to the html tag. Let's call our Angular application "friendsList".
  • Add a ng-controller attribute to the body tag. Let's call our Angular controller "mainCtrl".

Solution

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="friendsList">
  <head>
    <title>My first angular app!</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>

  <body ng-controller="mainCtrl">

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.32/angular.min.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Step 3

Summary

In this step, we'll create the javascript file that creates our Angular application.

Instructions

  • Create a file called app.js in js/.
  • Open js/app.js.
  • Initialize an Angular application called "friendsList".
  • Open index.html and add a script tag that links to js/app.js.
    • The order is imperative here. Include js/app.js just below the Angular CDN.

Solution

js/app.js 
angular.module("friendsList", []);
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="friendsList">
  <head>
    <title>My first angular app!</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>

  <body ng-controller="mainCtrl">

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.32/angular.min.js"></script>
    <script src="./js/app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Step 4

Summary

In this step, we'll create the javascript file that creates our main Angular controller.

Instructions

  • Create a filed called mainCtrl.js in js/.
  • Open js/mainCtrl.js.
  • Create an Angular controller called mainCtrl.
  • Assign an array of your friends to a scope variable called friends.
  • Open index.html and add a script tag that links to js/mainCtrl.js.
    • The order is imperative here. Include js/mainCtrl.js just below the js/app.js.

Solution

js/mainCtrl.js 
angular.module('friendsList').controller('mainCtrl', function($scope){
  $scope.friends = [ 'Garry', 'Jerry', 'Larry', 'Perry', 'Mary' ];
});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="friendsList">
  <head>
    <title>My first angular app!</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>

  <body ng-controller="mainCtrl">

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.32/angular.min.js"></script>
    <script src="./js/app.js"></script>
    <script src="./js/mainCtrl.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Step 5

Summary

In this step, we'll take data from js/mainCtrl.js's scope and output it in index.html.

Instructions

  • Open index.html.
  • Create a H1 tag that says "My Friends".
  • Under that H1 tag use ng-repeat to create a list of friends.
    • The format should be a parent div element that has one child paragraph element.
    • The paragraph element should display the name of the friend.

Solution

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="friendsList">
  <head>
    <title>My first angular app!</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>

  <body ng-controller="mainCtrl">

    <h1>My Friends</h1>
    <div ng-repeat="friend in friends">
      <p>{{ friend }}</p>
    </div>

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.32/angular.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/app.js"></script>
    <script src="js/mainCtrl.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Black Diamond

  • Add a function on mainCtrl's scope that can add friend names to the friends array on scope.
    • Call this function addFriend.
  • Add an input field that a user can type a name into in index.html.
  • Add a button in index.html that a user can click to invoke addFriend off of scope.

You should then be able to see friends added onto the DOM automagically!

Contributions

If you see a problem or a typo, please fork, make the necessary changes, and create a pull request so we can review your changes and merge them into the master repo and branch.

Copyright

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