AngularJS A comprehensive beginners guide to angular.js , 3nd Edition (Rufus Stewart) (Z-Library)

Author：Rufus Stewart

Coding with AngularJS For Dummies Well, you’re in good hands !But we have a long road, you and me, with lots of things to learn :).We’re living exciting times in Web development. There is a new Angular. A complete rewrite of the good old AngularJS. Why a complete rewrite? Was AngularJS 1.x not enough?I like the old AngularJS very much. In our small company, we have built several projects with it,contributed code to the core framework, trained hundreds of developers (yes, really), and even written a book about it (in French, but that still counts).AngularJS is incredibly productive once you have mastered it. Despite all of this, it doesn’t preventus from seeing its weaknesses. AngularJS is not perfect, with some very difficult concepts to grasp,and traps hard to avoid.Most of all, the Web has changed since AngularJS was conceived. JavaScript has changed. *** New frameworks have emerged, with great ideas, or better implementation. We are not the kind of developers to tell you that you should use this tool instead of that one. We just happen to know some tools very well, and know what fits the project. AngularJS was one of those tools, allowing usto build well-tested web applications, and to build them fast. We also tried to bend it where it didn’tfit. Don’t blame us, it happens to the best of us.Will Angular be the tool we will use without hesitation in our future projects? It’s hard to say right now, because the framework is really young and the ecosystem only just blooming.But Angular has a lot of interesting points, and a vision that few other frameworks have. It has been designed for the Web of tomorrow, with ECMAScript 6, Web Components and Mobile in mind.When it was first announced, I was, like many, sad at first that the 2.0 version would not be a simple update (I’m sorry if you’re just learning about it). *** But I was also eager to see what solution the talented Google team would come up with.So I started to write this ebook, pretty much after the first commi