Chapter 15AngularJS Overview

The final MEAN technology that we’re going to explore is AngularJS. Angular is a front-end framework used for creating single-page applications (SPAs). Like the other MEAN technologies, Angular is open source and can be used freely in your applications.

Angular was created in 2009 by Miško Hevery and Adam Abrons at a company named Brat Tech LLC. Angular was initially intended to be part of an online JSON storage service, but this concept was abandoned and Angular was released to the open-source world. Adam Abrons has since left the project, but Hevery continues work on the project. Hevery became employed by Google, which is now closely associated with Angular.

Single-page Applications

Single-page applications represent ...

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