AngularJS ngResource module provides first class built-in support for interacting with RESTful services asynchronously, via $resource service. $resource is a higher-level abstraction on low-level $http service used for asynchronous server communication. It is worth to note down that everything that can be done by $resource can be done by directly using $http. $http is designed…
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AngularJS Custom-Directives controllers, require option guide
AngularJS Custom Directive’s can have controllers. Controllers in Directive’s are used for inter-directive communication. This post discusses Directive’s controller, require option and controller argument in directive’s link function. Lets get started. This post is a part of AngularJS Directives Tutorial Series. Difference between Directive’s link function & Directive’s controller In previous posts, we have discussed…
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AngularJS Directive’s transclude & ng-transclude can be used to create directive that wraps other elements. By-default, AngularJS Directive element replaces any element declared as a child element of directive in HTML, by directive’s own content. But sometimes you way want to preserve the child element and let the directive act as more of a wrapper…
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AngularJS Directive’s replace option can be used to replace the container element itself by directive content. By default, the directive content inserted as the child of the element directive is applied on. But using replace, that container element altogether can be replaced by directive’s actual content HTML. This post is a part of AngularJS Directives…
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AngularJS Directive’s link key defines link function for the directive. Precisely, using link function, we can define directive’s API & functions that can then be used by directive to preform some business logic. The link function is also responsible for registering DOM listeners as well as updating the DOM. It is executed after the template…
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AngularJS Directive’s scope key provides us complete control over the scope of our directive element. Our goal while writing a directive should be to avoid polluting parent scope as much as possible. In this post we will discuss various scope related options/strategies including using parent scope, inheriting parent scope and creating an Isolated scope [isolating…
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Directives are AngularJS way of extending HTML. As the AngularJS Official documentation says, they are basically markers on a DOM element (such as an attribute, element name, comment or CSS class) that tell AngularJS’s HTML compiler ($compile) to attach a specified behavior to that DOM element (e.g. via event listeners). In this detailed guide to…
Continue readingAngularJS Custom-Directives restrict option guide
AngularJS Directive’s restrict key defines how a directive can be used in HTML. In this post, we will see all possible configuration options using restrict. This post is a part of AngularJS Directives Tutorial Series. In previous post, our directive was created to be used as an attribute of an existing element, like <div item-widget>…
Continue readingAngularjs Routing Tutorial using ui-router
UI-router is a routing framework for AngularJS. It’s a flexible alternative to ngRoute as it supports Nested & Multiple Named views. Whereas ngRoute functions based on routes URL, ui-router is based on states in application. With ui-router, your user interface can be organized into states which can have all sorts of logic applied on them…
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AngularJS Routes enable us to implement multiview SPAs [Single Page Applications]. A multiview application would consist of multiple views [HTML Templates where each template is associated with a specific route] which would be loaded dynamically as a result of user action (clicking a link, typing a specific URL in browser e.g.). Using routing, AngularJS application…
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