AngularJS: Novice to Ninja

Chapter 9Using REST APIs in Single Page Blogger

Applying $resource to Our App

Let's return to our Single Page Blogger app and use AngularJS's $resource to store all our blog posts on a remote server. I've developed a RESTful back end to store blog posts using Node.js and MongoDB. The app has been deployed to OpenShift Cloud and can be accessed at http://spblogger-sitepointdemos.rhcloud.com.

Here is what the API looks like:

URL	HTTP Verb	Request Body	Result
/api/posts	GET	empty	Returns all posts
/api/posts	POST	JSON String	Create new post
/api/posts/:id	GET	empty	Returns single post
/api/posts/:id	PUT	JSON String	Updates existing post
/api/posts/:id	DELETE	empty	Deletes existing post

Note: Making Cross-domain API Calls

Normally you won't be able to make cross-domain ...