What You Will Learn from This Book

Reading this book will enable you to build real-world, dynamic websites and web applications. Websites are no longer simple static content that consist of HTML pages with integrated images and formatted text. Instead, websites have become much more dynamic, with a single page often serving as the entire site or application.

Using AngularJS technology enables you to build logic directly into your web page that binds the data model for the client web application to back-end services and databases. AngularJS also enables you to easily extend the capability of HTML so that the UI design logic can be expressed easily in an HTML template file. Following are just a few of the things you will learn while reading this book:

■ How to quickly build AngularJS templates with built-in directives that enhance the user experience

■ How to bind UI elements to the data model so that when the model changes the UI changes and vice versa

■ How to bind mouse and keyboard events directly to the data model and back-end functionality to provide robust user interactions

■ How to define your own custom AngularJS directives that extend the HTML language

■ How to implement client-side services that can interact with the web server

■ How to build dynamic browser views that provide rich user interaction

■ How to create custom services that can easily be reused in other AngularJS applications

■ How to implement rich UI components such as zoomable images and expandable lists as custom AngularJS directives