AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework. Its goal is to augment browser-based applications with Model–View–Controller (MVC) capability and reduce the amount of JavaScript needed to make web applications functional. These type of apps are also known as Single-Page Applications.
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Programatically add tab linked to ui.router [migrated]
I have the following configuration for my $stateProvider:
$stateProvider
.state("main", { abstract: true, url: "/main", templateUrl: "main.html" })
.state("main.tab1", { url: "/tab1", ...
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Is one of these the more “Angular” way of communicating with a directive?
I am working on a project where I would like to encapsulate a directive library and distribute it to other developers to use. I would like to keep the changes to the model within this encapsulated ...
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Why can't I use parens when executing function in return object? [migrated]
Can someone explain why, if I add parens to _start in the return statement I get the error:
undefined is not a function
_start is function, is it not?
.factory('TrackPage', ['$location', ...
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Angular UI's $StateProvider [duplicate]
I was thinking of using Angular UI, and specifically its $StateProvider, which makes it easy to create nested views, in my next application. Until now, I have been using vanilla Angular's ngInclude ...
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SPA Applications: AJAX to fetch templates or build from strings
I'm working on a large angular application and I'm currently using a factory class that builds HTML templates from strings. We don't have to worry about mobile support for the application and I'm ...
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In AngularJS, why do we use scope instead of $scope in the directive link?
Just curious why whenever I see an example of a directive using a link, the parameter for scope is scope and not $scope?
This is always biting me because I'm so used to typing $scope, my brain ...
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Using ng-init to initialize data in Angular controller
Recently I came across the following in one of our projects. In one of our mvc views they are passing model data to an Angular controller through ngInit directive
In xxx.cshtml
<div ...
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What is the “best practice” for converting an external API's data structure?
When an API's data structure does not fit well with an angular app, I am trying to determine the best-practice in my specific design and implementation for converting it to a usable structure.
I was ...
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Cross browser client side storage
I am developing an angularjs app. The app has to run in current FF, IE, Chrome and on iOS/Android via Phonegap.
I am looking for a solution to store data in the client.
Phonegap offers a web sql ...
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Ideal & idomatic javascript interface for RESTful API
I am trying to write an angular service to interface with a RESTful API.
For sake of simplicity, lets assume the API is
+ Company
|___+ Department
| |____ Person
|
|____ Person
Notice how ...
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AngularJS Directive vs Service vs Controller
I am about to start implementing a change request on my companies internal website, that will check a bunch of fields and highlight them if they match certain guidelines. For example, if the date of ...
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Would it be the right software engineering system to move from AngularJS-based to jQuery-based or hybrid implementation for webapp?
I am presently working on an AngularJS-based chat webapp, and it polls the server for updates, and then renders them in what is pretty much a straight shot in AngularJS. The result looks appropriate ...
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AngularJS directive architecture: Where to put parameters?
I'm using a charts-Plugin (Morris.js) in my AngularJS application. I'm building a directive for each type of chart.
The plugin is called like this:
new Morris.Line({
// ID of the element in which ...
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AJAX or web sockets for client-server communication?
I recently took a course on AngularJS, and quite frankly I loved the concepts of a website that fetches json to handle subsequent requests, however I still feel like Javascript is far too slow for ...
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How to structure REST api service that accepts POST parameters in the body
Everything I've read says to pass parameters to a REST service in the URI, whether by template, or query string:
https://www.myapp/my/login/api/authenticate/ganders/mypassword
or
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Using AngjularJS with Twitter Bootstrap
I want to refactor an OLD legacy application and give it a new feel... so, I want to use Twitter Boostrap for the UI... I've also been playing around a lot with AngularJS... is it common place to use ...
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Javascript, JQuery and now AngularJS What is happening? [closed]
I have been away from computers for about 3 years and starting to get back into programming. Lots has changed in resources and help sites available on the web especially the evolving StackExchange ...
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Why don't we completely de-couple frontend JS frameworks and backend APIs? [closed]
Whenever we implement a frontend framework in the likes of Backbone, AngularJS etc. there's an integration process involved with the backend technologies like NodeJS, Rails, Yii etc. (like setting up ...
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AngularJS: structuring a web application with multiple ng-apps
The blogosphere has a number of articles on the topic of AngularJS app structuring guidelines such as these (and others):
http://www.johnpapa.net/angular-app-structuring-guidelines/
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What is a good method of storing test data for development and unit testing with angular and jasmine?
What is a good method of storing JSON data/objects for development and unit testing with angular and jasmine?
I have seen some ways of accomplishing this. However, since I am new to unit testing with ...
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Dividing responsibilities between client and server
I'm working on a Web app that uses node.js on the server and AngularJS on the client. I'm new to Angular, but enables writing client-side applications that can be more self-contained than some other ...
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Suggested setup for angularJS development in Visual Studio 2013 [closed]
I am starting with AngularJS. The back end will be Web API (which is new to me as well) and I'd like to use just one IDE, so I'm trying to figure out how to setup a project in Visual Studio 2013 for ...
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Global variables in javascript
I don't consider myself a highly skilled javascript developer, but I thought I got one thing right for sure: don't create global variables unless you really have to.
I've been learning angularjs ...
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Progressive Enhancement vs. Single Page Apps
I just got back from a conference in Boston called An Event Apart.
A really popular theme amongst the speakers was the idea of progressive enhancement - a site's content should go in the HTML, and ...
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Combining two MVC frameworks in a project
Is it any good to combine two MVC frameworks together in a project? Is it a fairly common approach? I am thinking about using a serverside framework like CodeIgniter/Laravel and client side framework ...
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Reducing code complexity for an interface between angular and d3
I'm playing around with different ways of integrating d3 and angular, in the context of learning both of these frameworks, and am hoping for some input:
My client application receives a JSON array ...
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asp.net mvc vs angular.js model binding
So I've noticed a trend lately of .net web developers using angular.js on the client side of applications and I've become more curious as I play around with angular and compare it to how I would do ...
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Is my application secure enough
first of all, I don't have any code to display in my question here, because I'm still designing the application structure, so i only got design developed.
I'm building a phone application that I'm ...
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Server side C# MVC with AngularJS
I like using .NET MVC and have used it quite a bit in the past. I have also built SPA's using AngularJS with no page loads other than the initial one. I think I want to use a blend of the two in ...
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Decoupling Server and Client using REST API
I was thinking about how I can decouple a web-application completely into a server-side and a client-side component. I want to decouple the app to the extent that I can host both components on ...
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scaffolding a multi-angular-app portal with usersystem
I'm trying to find the best way of developing a portal that a user can log in to and then be presented with a range of different apps (angular). They should share the same api-backend.
I think that ...
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How should my AngularJS “wizard” be structured?
For brevity's sake, consider the following scenario:
Part of my application is a wizard for bringing on new clients and it's a dynamic page. One step contains billing information, another step is ...
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Should front-end integration tests make HTTP requests?
I am developing a single-page web application using AngularJS. Data for this application is consumed over a REST API which is well tested in its own right.
The Angular application has a bunch of unit ...
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AngularJS: directives and controllers: resolve, loading, reloading
I have a philosophy question about AngularJS and directives but correct implementation of the next problem solves it. So,
I need an AngularJS directive,
It loads some data via several (not one!) ...
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How many Angular Controllers and/or Directives is too many?
I'm building a large, editable data table with angular, and I'm trying to figure out what the best practice is.
The table will be a couple of hundred rows, with a couple of dozen columns, so upwards ...
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Where should I start reading AngularJS's source code?
After reading this article I realized that I really didn't read any "serious" source code during my 3-years as a professional developer.
Recently I started a new web-project which makes heavy use of ...
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Communication between nested directives
There seem to be quite a few ways of communicating between directives. Say you have nested directives, where the inner directives must communicate something to the outer (e.g. it's been chosen by the ...
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Should angularjs directive directly interact with services or is it considered an anti-pattern?
Which one is considered better:
having a directive that interacts with services directly
or
having a directive that exposes certain hooks to which controller may bind behaviour (involving ...
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Session management in a Service Oriented Architecture
Where should you manage a users session in a SOA? Should you manage it in the Web Service or in the client and why?
My application is SPA
(Considering that this will be the stacked that will be used
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The practical size limits of an AngularJS based application [closed]
We have been tasked with replacing a series of 25 year old mainframe applications with web applications. There are 4 applications in the series and we are trying to come up with a stack that will ...
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Custom directive or ng-show/hide
On my form I have an icon which represents whether my entity is locked (shown by a locked padlock) or unlocked (an open padlock). At the model level, this is represented by a boolean property ...
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Design advice for building pluggable componentry in AngularJS
I'm currently working on a team that's developed several, extremely similar web applications in flash, and wants them ported into JavaScript. They also want a single application harness to host all of ...
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What parts of functionality should be refactored into a directive?
I am creating an application from legacy code using AngularJS.
I wonder what parts of my code should be moved into a directive.
For example, iI had thought of moving a table which is used multiple ...
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AngularJS dealing with large data sets (Strategy)
I am working on developing a personal temperature logging viewer based on my rasppi curl'ing data into my web server's api. Temperatures are taken every 2 seconds and I can have several temperature ...
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Clean, Modular Code vs MV* Frameworks [closed]
I've been hearing a-lot about the "new" MV* frameworks. I've tinkered with KnockoutJS, creating an invoicing application, but I much prefer to write clean, modular code in raw JavaScript - leveraging ...
