AngularJS

Chapter 1. Introduction to AngularJS

Our ability to create amazing web-based apps is incredible, but the complexity involved in making these apps is similarly incredible. We on the Angular team wanted to relieve the pain involved with developing AJAX applications. At Google, we’d worked through the hard lessons of building large web applications like Gmail, Maps, Calendar, and several others. We thought we might be able to use these experiences to benefit everyone.

We wanted writing web apps to feel more like the first time we wrote a few lines of code and stood back in amazement at what we’d made happen. We wanted the coding process to feel more like creating and less like trying to satisfy the strange inner workings of web browsers.

At the same time, we wanted an environment that helped us make the design choices that make apps easy to create and understand from the start, but that continue to be the right choices to make our apps easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow large.

We’ve tried to do this in the Angular framework. We’re very excited about the results we’ve achieved. A lot of credit goes to the open source community around Angular who do a fantastic job supporting each other and who have taught us many things. We hope you’ll join our community and help us learn how Angular can be even better.

Some of the larger and more involved examples and code snippets are available on a GitHub repository for you to look at, fork, and play with at our GitHub page.

Concepts

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