I'm starting to learn some AngularJS
and am trying to determine its practicality when working along side ASP.NET
MVC
.
Let's say I have a view which displays beers from a repository in a table. I could output the information in two ways.
1.Using MVC's Razor Engine
Here, the model containing the beers is processed on the server and the html page rendered.
<h3>Rendered using Razor!</h3>
<table class="table table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Colour</th>
<th>Tasted?</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
@foreach (var beer in Model)
{
<tr>
<td>@beer.Name</td>
<td>@beer.Colour</td>
<td>@beer.Tried</td>
</tr>
}
</tbody>
</table>
2.Using Angular repeat
Here, the HTML is returned straight away and angular performs a AJAX
call to the controller to retrieve its model. After it has that data it outputs it into the table.
<h3>Rendered using Angular!</h3>
<table class="table table-condensed table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Colour</th>
<th>Tasted?</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr data-ng-repeat="beer in model">
<td>{{ beer.Name }}</td>
<td>{{ beer.Colour }}</td>
<td>{{ beer.Tried }}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Controller
angular.module('BeerController', [])
.controller('BeerCtrl', ['$scope', '$http', function ($scope, $http) {
$scope.model = {};
$http.get('/Beer/GetBeers').success(function (data) {
$scope.model = data;
});
}]);
My Question
Is there a way to use the Razor engine for the initial load of the data and Angular for everything else (paging calls, searching etc.)? In other words, how do I bind existing html to a controllers model in AngularJS?
<table class="table table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Colour</th>
<th>Tasted?</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Fosters</td>
<td>Gold</td>
<td>True</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Becks</td>
<td>Amber</td>
<td>False</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cobra</td>
<td>Gold</td>
<td>True</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
ng-init
on values from the server, or create a constant with stringified data, parse it in your controller, but that's a bit overkill – tymeJV Jan 26 at 16:53