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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Importing plain javascript libraries in an AngularJs application
I am working on an AngularJs project which is getting bigger very fast.
Currently I need to store some user data, so I was using $localStorage for Angular.
But I had a problem, as the application is ...
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Preserving data in js with multipage application
One benefit of single page applications like Angular.js, is that you can store data in a global variable and access in multiple routes.
With multiple page applications, the data is lost during ...
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How to properly manage “business” constants with AngularJS?
I'm working with AngularJS on a browser game and I have a bunch of "business" constants.
These constants will be often updated during game testing (game balancing) and are used by different ...
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A login page example in AngularJS Material? [on hold]
Could anyone be so kind to give me an example of a login page in AngularJS Material Design, with the login "card" (their parlance) centered in the page and another page behind it, blurred and inactive ...
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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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AngularJS and ASP MVC
We have started to implement AngularJS in our web-applications using ASP MVC.
I am wondering what approach to use for building application in the future.
Keep using our current stategy: Build the ...
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Is it a good idea to have separate UI components make their own webservice calls?
I have few UI components in an angularjs web-application. Each display data based upon same input. One shows stats which are calculated on the basis of a time period. Other shows a chart of daily ...
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Testing async code: are long sleeps acceptable?
I am testing some AngularJS code using Selenium. Angular updates the DOM in unpredictable order, sometimes completely async (via setTimeout), so it is difficult to know when the DOM has been ...
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REST API Authorisation of HTML5 hybrid/single page applications
I am looking for some guidance on application level authorisation to a REST API. I am building the API (in Laravel 5) to serve an Angular.js single page application (and probably a HTML5 hybrid mobile ...
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Using $timeout to normalize response time of a webservice call (Best practice question)
Consider you have a simple, standard $http request to a REST api:
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function makeCall() {
var restURL = "http://my-rest-api/endpoint";
return $http.get(restURL);
}
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If the execution ...
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Why does a lot of Angular source code avoid enclosing the contents of a file in a closure?
I am assuming because it is a standard practice in the Angular world that, any sort of module system has to be wrapped as an Angular module and angular should be the only global variable used which ...
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angularjs events for launching modals [closed]
I want to be able to launch modal windows from different parts of my angular application for viewing or editing content without changing states/url.
My current approach is to create a module for each ...
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In AngularJS - should $resource be used from controller or service?
All the documentation, examples and tutorials I've found on $resource were using it directly in the controller. So far I'm just using $http from services and those services are further used in the ...
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My web app uses ASP, but does-it need it?
I’m relatively new to web development, and I’m amazed at the variety of new concepts in the field. I could probably use some help to synthetize.
I have to deal with is a backend written in Delphi, ...
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AngularJS directive as components
I am in a project where we want to componentify a lot of "information boxes".
These boxes (lets say they are mostly different types of tables) should easily be included into different pages and even ...
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When to use Prototypes & the correct usage of Prototypes ( Javascript )
I have been programming in Javascript for a while and I am quite comfortable with it. And I know the basic concept of prototypes and I have also used them a few times. But one thing I can't figure out ...
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SPA with RESTful backend
I'm building an app based on ng-seed which is angular setup with routing out of the box. I'm backing the app with a rest interface of which I aim for Richardson level 3 compliance.
Often it seems ...
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Server-Side MVCs vs Client Side MVCs
Recently I was asked to do a project as a technical assessment. The assignment is to create a website using Twitters API. The assessment recommended using Django. When I quickly looked up Django I ...
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Design pattern for multiple companies in AngularJS
We are on the verge of launching v3 of our in-house product. v2 was written completely in AngularJS and V3 will be the same, but written completely in Typescript.
We have a few customers that have ...
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How many views and controllers do I need?
I did one AngularJs app which was rather complex, with multiple nested tabs, which had multiple nested views & controllers, needed ng-router, and was quite tricky for me to implement, as browser ...
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Implementing SEO for a Zend Framework/PHP/Angular.js application
A team has implemented a web application using MySql, PHP with the Zend framework and Angular.js on the client side. I am in charge of implementing the SEO for this application.
I understand I have ...
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Best way to traverse data and update nodes in Mongo DB
I am using Angular Tree View in my web app. Data coming from the server is build with
https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-materialized
getArrayTree() function.
What I need is, syncing the ...
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LDAP Authentication with RESTFUL API
I am developping a RestFul API with Symfony2. (v2.6)
The front-end application is build with AngularJs. (v1.3.16)
I would like to install SingleSignOn Authentication with an Active Directory.
Both ...
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Rich object model in the context of a good REST API and of an existing rich object model on the server-side
First off, let's frame this question in the context of a good REST API and an existing rich object model on the server-side, as well as modern web architecture (MVC frameworks like angularjs).
I'm ...
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Is “lazy loading” factories in AngularJS using this $q.defer method good practice
I guess I don't believe in myself as a good programmer but I found out this method on my own (not suggestion I'm the first one to do it, but I didn't follow a guide) so it must be broken somehow.
$q ...
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AngularJS Different Controller per Role?
I am creating an AngularJS app with a restful-back end. I have 4 types of users for which each component/page may have significantly differnt behavior. What is the best approach to implement this?
Do ...
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Whether to abstract small repeating code segments in HTML templates?
(The framework used in question is AngularJS so the question can be translated as "Whether to introduce Directives for small repeating code segments in Views")
As a developer who focuses on Java ...
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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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angularjs best practice by example
I am trying to get my head around how to better structure my angularjs applications by not overloading my controllers with too much logic. I feel like I have read just about every article on the ...
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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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Using AngularJS to develop easy to implement modules for customers, wondering if this is a good way to implement this functionality?
Where I'm working, we currently have quite a few clients, both using Wordpress and custom site solutions that require our data to be sent via JSON to their site where they can then display it without ...
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Making backend service urls configurable
First of all, I will talk a little about the purpose of this question. We have several linux boxes on the same network on which different services are installed, some times these boxes are ...
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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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Is obtrusive JavaScript required to support a feature of AngularJS?
I'll start by saying I'm just learning about AngularJS, and I was reading this article, which seems to advocate for obtrusive JavaScript as the right thing:
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Angular Architecture
I have been developing a few prototype apps in Angular, with various backends, including firebase and php/mysql. I'm pretty sure I'm not using a good organization pattern for development because of a ...
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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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How to connect mean.js to AWS S3
I am trying see how I can upload images and file to aws S3 via the mean.js framework. I am not sure how the backend is linked to S3. There are no resources online about this specific framework and ...
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Create an AngularJS front end for a Microservices application
I want to create a Microservices application, in which every microservice is responsible for its own part of the front end. At the same time, I want to create the front end in AngularJS as a Single ...
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How to handle karma/bower in a Symfony Bundle on github?
i am working on a Symfony Bundle that uses angular among other javascript deps.
Now i want to unit-test my javascript code and i want to ship those tests as well.
My initial idea was to add ...
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Should I request the backend for every small piece of dynamic data?
Let's suppose there's a page implemented with AngularJS.
Ideally the frontend (Angular app) and backend (Web services/API/ call it whatever you like) should be 100% separated from each other which ...
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Under what conditions is the use of MVVM appropriate?
Model View View-Model was developed by Microsoft to target UI development platforms which support event-driven programming, specifically Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight on the ...
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How can I team up two MVC frameworks without having them fight each other? [closed]
I'm creating a CRUD-based web project, and am thinking about using a server side MVC framework (such as CodeIgniter or Laravel) in tandem with a client side MVC framework (such as AngularJS). Is this ...
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With only backend development experience, how do I go into frontend development (js, html, css)? [closed]
Currently I am interning at a company as a "full stack" developer (Application developer on the job title) and I realize that I am having difficulties coping with frontend tasks. This is especially ...
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Changing a directive's template based on state
I'm trying to figure out the best patter for applying when writing a particular type of Angular directive. In this scenario, I want it to display a login form if a user is logged out, and then switch ...
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Image uploads - preoptimize with CDN or host on same machine?
I'm working on a personal blog that will be used for reviewing various goods/services and as a dev journal. I'm writing this in Angularjs and Nodejs as a learning experience, but I plan on using it ...
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Separating AngularJs and Django into individual Apps?
I am building a web application using AngularJs and our web server is built in Python Django Rest Framework.
I would like to have the two projects separated and not coupled.
In my current setup the ...
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What is the best way to create dynamically a DOM?
I know that there are plenty answers to this question on stackoverflow, but I can´t find one that give me an answer that can help me to solve a question that came out after read a lot of Javascript, ...
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Been working on a project for the last 6+ months. Consultants have been brought in and want to change everything. What should I do? [closed]
Long story short, I have been the sole front end developer on this project since last summer. Consultants have been brought in to help accelerate our velocity. After one day and some knowledge ...
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How can I use protected Tastypie resources within Angular?
I have a working Django 1.7 project with an API (Tastypie) made available for mobile clients (ApiKeyAuthentication).
I am using Angular with Chart.js, and so I need to GET some queryset using ...
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How do I create a modal service with AngularJS?
I'm trying to make a service that's polymorphic based upon what mode is specified in the URL. If the char param in the route is set to 'p', I want to use a PresentMode service. If the char param is ...
