
As web applications get more complex, Javascript is tedious, repetitive and hard to maintain. We need something which is built for large scale projects.
Angular makes heavy use of design patterns and is built to make testing easier. These are just some reasons to use this framework.
Get Angular core components and other libraries set up on your machine.
What are all those files you just downloaded? A brief guide.
Run your own local server, it is super fast and simple!
See the big picture, visually. Get familiar with the terms so they don't seem so daunting.
Data binding in Angular is pure magic, get started with it right away!
Controllers are the glue which hold the UI and the underlying code together.
Services are libraries which can be used anywhere in your Angular application.
Lazily instantiated, singleton libraries!
Every controller has its own scope
The scope hierarchy mimics the DOM hierarchy, understand what that means.
Scopes propagate events, upwards to the parent scope and downwards to the child scopes.
Directives can be attributes, elements, comments and even CSS classes. You can restrict how you want your custom directive to be used.
Understanding how data binding works in Angular is key to writing good code.
All code runs in the Angular context, this is how Angular keeps 2 way data binding working!
Watches can be set up on objects as well as collections, make sure you use the right methods and right parameters!
NOTE: This course uses Angular version 1.5.8 and is not compatible with Angular 2
Angular JS is a complete re-imagination of how web applications should be built. It takes best practices, learnt the hard way, and makes them super simple for everyone to use. Learn by example, in small easy-to-digest bits.
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