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Learning AngularJS for .NET Developers Build single-page web applications using frameworks that help you work efficiently and deliver great results Alex Pop BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Learning AngularJS for .NET Developers Copyright © 2014 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. 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ISBN 978-1-78398-660-6 www.packtpub.com Cover image by Rajnish Jha ([email protected]) Credits Author Project Coordinator Alex Pop Neha Bhatnagar Reviewers Proofreaders Andrew C Cunliffe Maria Gould Anton Kropp Ameesha Green Pascal Precht Indexers Hemangini Bari Commissioning Editor Usha Iyer Tejal Soni Acquisition Editor Graphics Richard Brookes-Bland Valentina D'silva Content Development Editor Production Coordinator Arvind Koul Conidon Miranda Technical Editor Cover Work Sebastian Michael Rodrigues Conidon Miranda Copy Editors Insiya Morbiwala Aditya Nair About the Author Alex Pop is a professional software developer with a university degree in Computer Engineering and 12 years of commercial experience building .NET applications. He has worked for ISVs, building enterprise resource planning applications, content management systems, and insurance and financial software products, and he is currently working in the higher education sector as a web application developer. His developer blog at http://alexvpop.blogspot.co.uk contains technical articles about .NET, JavaScript, and various software engineering topics. I would like to salute the efforts of the open source developer community at large that made this book possible. I would like to thank my ever-so-understanding wife and daughter who patiently supported me in writing this book. About the Reviewers Andrew C Cunliffe is a technical consultant; he focuses on projects that use open source technologies and process improvements for development teams of all sizes. He delivers integrated, end-to-end solutions through the use of continuous delivery techniques, with more than 15 years of experience writing software for corporate companies, ranging from company tools such as intranets to large bespoke solutions used by governments and banks. Andrew has worked with a large number of software languages, predominantly JavaScript (AngularJS and Node.js), Java, and PHP. He always ensures the highest levels of quality through test-driven techniques. In his limited free time, he contributes to projects on GitHub and reviews books for publications. Andrew is the owner of SYSEN Ltd, where he holds the position of Director; SYSEN offers professional services in the software development and support landscape. The company has delivered solutions for a number of businesses; for more information, see the website, www.sysen.co.uk. I would not have been able to do all of this without the ongoing support of my family and friends, and as such, I would like to thank them all, especially my wife and our three children. Anton Kropp is an ex-Amazon engineer, who is now Senior Software Engineer at Practice Fusion, where he works on web-based electronic health records. He has extensive experience with F#, C#, AngularJS, TypeScript, realtime video, and OCR, and he also runs the blog www.onoffswitch.net. Anton is currently based in Seattle and spends his free time riding his bicycle and drinking local beer. Pascal Precht is a frontend engineer and has over 7 years of professional experience in web development. He loves semantic markup, evolving technologies, and the open Web. Pascal is very active in the community and has contributed to many open source projects, such as AngularJS and AngularUI, to name a few. He is also the creator of the popular angular-translate module for the AngularJS framework. Pascal has also reviewed ng-book, Ari Lerner, Fullstack. io, which is one of the most-read books about AngularJS. When he's not busy preparing for the next workshop or conference talk, you might find him outside with his skateboard. www.PacktPub.com Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more You might want to visit www.PacktPub.com for support files and downloads related to your book. 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Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Introducing AngularJS 9 Presenting AngularJS with examples 10 A jQuery example 10 An AngularJS example 13 Introducing the AngularJS controller 16 An overview of the AngularJS architecture 20 The Model-View-Controller pattern 20 The structure of an AngularJS application 21 Bootstrapping an AngularJS application 21 Defining module dependencies 23 The JavaScript patterns and practices used in AngularJS applications 24 Immediately-invoked Function Expression 24 The revealing module pattern 25 The strict mode of JavaScript 27 Dependency injection 27 Introducing AngularJS services 29 Directives 34 The ngRepeat directive 34 The ngInclude directive 36 Creating a custom directive 37 Filters 40 Summary 43
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