Getting Started with Angular JS

Getting Started
with
Akshay Mathur

What is Angular
• Browser-side MVC toolkit
– For creating Single Page Web Apps
– With less custom code
• All in one JavaScript framework
– Encapsulates many concepts within
– jQuery may not be required
• Resembles more with server side Frameworks

Prerequisites
• Advance JS objects and objects instances
• Model, View, Controller and App objects
• Data Bindings (one-way and two way)
• Client-side templates
• URL routing
• Module definition
• Module dependency
• Asynchronous programing

Custom HTML Attributes
• To any HTML node, any arbitrary attribute can
be added
<div howdy=“I am fine”></div>
• Browsers simply ignore such attributes
• These attributes can be read by JavaScript

Directives
• Angular uses custom HTML attributes for its
use
– They call it directives
• Angular script reads these directives and acts
accordingly
• HTML tags are also used as directives
– Standard HTML tags with changed behavior
– Custom HTML tags

ng-app
• The ng-app directive serves two purposes
– Tells Angular about the root node for the application
– Assigns witch app object (module) to use
<html ng-app="phonecatApp">
<head>
<script src=”angular.js"></script>
</head>
<body> … …</body>
</html>

Creating Angular Module
• All modules (angular core or 3rd party) that
should be available to an application must be
registered
• The angular.module is a global place for
creating, registering and retrieving Angular
modules
angular.module(name,
[requires],
configFn);

App Object
• App may be used as the top level Angular Module
– All other objects are defined as member of this object
var phonecatApp =
angular.module(
'phonecatApp',
[]
);

The Phone Catalogue App
• Nexus S
Fast just got faster with
Nexus S.
• Motorola XOOM with Wi-Fi
The Next, Next Generation
tablet.
<ul>
<li>
<span>Nexus S</span>
<p> Fast just got
faster with Nexus S. </p>
</li>
<li>
<span>Motorola XOOM
with Wi-Fi</span>
<p> The Next, Next
Generation tablet. </p>
</li>
</ul>

HTML Templates
• When similar HTML needs to be written for
different content, templates are used
• Template system allows to fill up data into
templates
– This is done via data binding expressions
• The template system also allows for basic
program constructs e.g. loops

JavaScript Template System
• Dynamically creates HTML code in JS
– Data driven HTML
– Allows variable substitution, looping and
conditional statements
• Generated HTML is inserted into the DOM for
changing part of the page on-the-fly
• Many libraries are available e.g. Handlebars,
DustJS, Mustache, UnderscoreJS etc.
– Angular has its own template system
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View
• Object that holds visual representation of the
data
• Provides methods for
– Rendering the user interface
– Handling the user interaction within the view
• Angular uses template as view
• The view gets its data from its Model
– Each view has its own model
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Model
• Object that holds data in a structural form
• Makes data available to view
• Acts as a unit of data
• By default Angular uses $scope object as
model
– Each view has its own model so the scope of
$scope is limited to the view
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Value Substitution
• Values are passed to template using $scope
object
– Members of $scope can be used directly in template
• Items in {{ }} are treated as variables and replaced
by its values
<li>
<span>{{phone_name}}</span>
<p>{{phone_desc}}</p>
</li>
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Looping
• Looping is done using ng-repeat directive
• Data passed to ng-repeat should be an Array
<li ng-repeat="phone in phones">
<span>{{phone.name}}</span>
<p>{{phone.desc}}</p>
</li>
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Controller
• Object that acts as a glue to connects view
and model
• The ng-controller directive attaches controller
to the view
<ul ng-controller=
"PhoneListCtrl">
<li> … …</li>
</ul>
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Passing Data to View
• Controller method of the App Object creates a
controller
• Value of $scope is set in the controller
phonecatApp.controller('PhoneListCtrl',
function ($scope) {
$scope.phones = [
{'name': 'Nexus S',
’desc': 'Fast just got faster'},
{'name': 'Motorola XOOM', ’desc': ’Next
Generation tablet.’}
];
}
);

Everything Together: HTML
<head>
<script src=”angular.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<ul ng-controller="PhoneListCtrl">
<li ng-repeat="phone in phones">
<span>{{phone.name}}</span>
<p>{{phone.desc}}</p>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Everything Together: JS
var phonecatApp =
angular.module('phonecatApp', []);
phonecatApp.controller('PhoneListCtrl',
function ($scope) {
$scope.phones = [
{'name': 'Nexus S',
’desc': 'Fast just got faster'},
{'name': 'Motorola XOOM',
’desc': ’Next Generation tablet.’}
];
}
);

Reading from Form Elements
• A model can be attached to form elements
– AngularJS updates the attached Model as value in
form element changes
<input ng-model="query">
– AngularJS also updates the value of form element
changes when the attached model is changed

Data Bindings
• Corresponding changes trigger as soon as data
changes at one place
• One way data binding
– Template re-renders as data in $scope changes
• Two way data binding
– Value of form element and attached model always
remain in sync

Modifying Data
• AngularJS provides a few readymade filter
functions for achieving certain effect
– Can be included within expressions in the
template
var val = 54.2
{{ val | number : 3}} // 54.200
• Option to write custom filters is available

Formatting Filters
• Number: Formats number
{{ val | number : 3}}
• Currency: Puts a currency identifier
{{amount | currency: "USD"}}
• Date: Formats date
{{today | date: 'medium'}}
• Lowercase/Uppercase
{{’somestr’| uppercase}}
• JSON: Formats JS object as string
{{ {'name':'value'} | json }}

Filtering Arrays
• Limit: Picks limited number of items
{{[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]| limitTo: 3 }}
• Filter: Picks items based on condition
{{[‘Bob’, ‘Mike’] | filter:
‘m’}}
• Order: Orders the array of objects in a field
{{[o1, o2] | orderBy: o1.f1}}

Filtering Repeater
<body>
Search: <input ng-model="query">
Sort by:
<select ng-model="orderProp">
<option value="name">Alphabetical</option>
<option value="age">Newest</option>
</select>
<ul class="phones">
<li ng-repeat="phone in phones | filter: query |
orderBy: orderProp">
{{phone.name}}
<p>{{phone.snippet}}</p>
</li>
</ul>
</body>

Creating Filter
• Custom filter cam be created using filter
method of Angular module
angular.module(
'phonecatFilters', []
).filter(’status',
filter_func);

Function Facts
• A function can be assigned to a variable
• A function can be defined within another function
• A function can return a function
function sqr(){
sq = function (x){
return x * x * x;
};
return sq;
}
My_sqr = sqr(); // function
My_sqr(3); // 27
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Custom Filter
• Filter returns a function
– This function takes the value to be transformed as input
– Optionally other arguments can be taken
– Returns the transformed value as output
filter_func = function(){
return function(input){
return input ? ‘smart’: ‘dumb’
}
}

Complete Filter
Definition:
angular.module(
'phonecatFilters',
[]).filter(’status’, filter_func);
filter_func = function(){
return function(input){
return input ? ‘smart’: ‘dumb’;
}
});
Usage:
{{ phone_type | status }}

Question
• The filter is defined as a member of top level Angular
module named phonecatFilters
angular.module(
'phonecatFilters',
[]).filter(’status’, filter_func);
• How will this be available to the HTML template connected
to phonecatApp?
var phonecatApp =
angular.module('phonecatApp’, []);

Object as Argument
• Objects can be passed to a function as an argument
• They proxy for named arguments
Say_hello = function (options){
if (typeof options === ‘Object’){
options.msg = (options.msg)?
options.msg : ’Hello!’;
}
alert(options.msg + ‘ ‘ + options.name);
}
Say_hello({name: ‘Akshay’});
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Using Functions as Objects
• Functions are actually First Class objects
So we can change
User= {}
User.name = ‘Akshay’
User.greet = function(){
alert(‘Hello ’ + User.name)
}
to
User = function(){
this.name = ‘Akshay’
this.greet = function(){
alert(‘Hello ’ + this.name)
}
}
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Creating Instances
• Now the object instance can be created using
new keyword
user1 = new User; user1.name
//Akshay user1.greet() //Hello
Akshay
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Class Constructor
• The main object function can take arguments for
initializing properties
User = function(name){
this.name = name;
this.greet = function(){
alert(‘Hello ’ + this.name)
}
}
user1 = new User(‘Cerri’);
user1.greet() //Hello Cerri
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Extending a Class
• More functions and properties can be defined
extending the prototype of the class
User.prototype.setGender =
function(gender){
this.gender = gender;
};
User.prototype.sayGender =
function(){
alert(this.name + ‘ is ’ +
this.gender);
};
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What is Dependency Injection
• A software design pattern that deals with how
code gets hold of its dependencies
• The best option is that the dependency is
passed in to the function or the object where
it is needed

Passing Dependency
• If the dependency is simply handed to the component, it
removes the responsibility of locating the dependency
function SomeClass(greeter) {
this.greeter = greeter;
}
SomeClass.prototype.doSomething =
function(name) {
this.greeter.greet(name);
}

Injector
• To manage the responsibility of dependency
creation, each Angular application has an injector.
• The injector is a ‘service locator’ that is
responsible for construction and lookup of
dependencies.
• How does the injector know what service needs
to be injected?

How injector knows..
• Infer the name of dependencies from the
name of function arguments
function MyCtlr($scope,
greeter){}
• Pass to injector
MyCtlr.$inject = [‘$scope’,
‘greeter’]

Making the Filter Available
• While creating a module, other required
modules can be passed as dependency list
var phonecatApp =
angular.module('phonecatApp’,
[‘phonecatFilters’]);
{{ phone_type | status }}

Angular Services
• What is a service?
– A system doing work for us
• Angular services are substitutable objects
– Wired together using dependency injection
• Angular services are:
– Lazily instantiated
– Singletons

Registering Custom Service
var myMod = angular.module('myMod', []);
myMod.factory('serviceId’, function() {
var shinyNewServiceInstance;
//factory function body that constructs
shinyNewServiceInstance
return shinyNewServiceInstance;
});

Built-in Services
• Angular provides built-in services for various
needs
– $filter: for formatting the data
– $window: for accessing window object
– $location: for parsing URL
– $timeout: a wrapper on setTimeout
– $http: for communicating with server using XHR or
JSONP
– …

• A way in web browser to communicate with
server without reloading the page
• XmlHttpRequest (XHR) object can also create
HTTP request and receive response
– The request happens asynchronously
• Other operations on page are allowed during the
request
– Received data does not render automatically
• Data needs to be received in a callback function and
used programmatically
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Asynchronous JavaScript & XML

AJAX Call in jQuery
$.ajax({
url: ‘/my_ajax_target’,
type: ‘POST’,
data: {id: 2},
success: function(response){
alert(‘Hello! ‘ + response.name);
},
error: function(){
alert(‘Please try later’);
}
});
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AJAX Call in Angular
$http({
method: 'GET',
url: '/someUrl’,
params: {id: 2}
}
).success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// this callback will be called asynchronously
// when the response is available
}
).error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// called asynchronously if an error occurs
// or server returns response with an error status.
}
);

Shortcut Methods
• For HTTP methods:
– GET: $http.get('/someUrl’)
– POST: $http.post('/someUrl', data)
– PUT: $http.put
– DELETE: $http.delete
• For getting only headers
– $http.head
• For cross-domain JSON (JSONP) call
– $http.jsonp(’http://domain/Url’)

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