Sams Teach Yourself: AngularJS for .NET Developers in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself: AngularJS for .NET Developers in 24 Hours

by Dennis Sheppard
Released September 2015
Publisher(s): Sams
ISBN: 9780134315041

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Book description

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

AngularJS is a modern MV* JavaScript framework that enables rapid web application development. The .NET framework from Microsoft is a platform software developers use to build web and desktop applications. Because the learning curve for AngularJS can be steep, this book uses the reader's existing .NET knowledge to introduce new AngularJS concepts. The topics this book covers include Front End Development tools, AngularJS fundamentals, advanced AngularJS, and finally how to integrate AngularJS into both greenfield and brownfield .NET applications.

This book will teach:

  • the reader to teach themselves AngularJS development using existing .NET knowledge

  • how to integrate AngularJS into new and existing .NET applications

  • how to use modern Front End Development tools and workflows

  • the reader to emphasize examples utilizing AngularJS best practices


    • Even after learning AngularJS development, this book will serve as a solid AngularJS and Front End Development tools reference.

    Table of contents

    1. About This eBook
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright Page
    4. Contents at a Glance
    5. Table of Contents
    6. About the Authors
    7. Dedications
    8. Acknowledgments
    9. We Want to Hear from You!
    10. Reader Services
    11. Introduction
      1. Audience and Organization
      2. How This Book Is Organized
      3. Conventions Used in This Book
      4. Exercises
      5. Onward and Upward!
    12. Hour 1. Introducing Modern Front-End Development
      1. Why Does Everything Look So Different?
      2. How Is the Code Different?
      3. Options for Front-End Development
        1. Backbone.js
        2. Ember.js
        3. AngularJS
      4. Why Angular?
      5. Why Is Angular 1 Still Relevant?
      6. Summary
      7. Q&A
      8. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      9. Exercise
    13. Hour 2. Presenting JavaScript Patterns
      1. Five JavaScript Tips and Tricks
        1. JavaScript Is Loosely Typed
        2. Functions Are Just Objects
        3. JavaScript Uses Function Scoping Instead of Block Scoping
        4. Equality and ===
        5. Function Overloading Isn’t Really a Thing
      2. JavaScript Patterns
        1. Closures
        2. Revealing Module Pattern
        3. IIFE
        4. Promises
        5. Pub/Sub
        6. MV*
          1. Model
          2. View
          3. Whatever’s and *’s
      3. Summary
      4. Q&A
      5. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      6. Exercise
    14. Hour 3. Tinkering with Tools for Modern Front-End Development
      1. The Tool Landscape
      2. Node
      3. Package Management
        1. NPM
        2. Bower
        3. Grunt
        4. Yeoman
      4. Summary
      5. Q&A
      6. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      7. Exercise
    15. Hour 4. Mastering Modules
      1. Angular Modules
      2. Creating Modules
      3. Summary
      4. Q&A
      5. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      6. Exercise
    16. Hour 5. Covering Controllers
      1. Angular Controllers
      2. $scope
      3. Controller Inheritance
      4. What Should and Shouldn’t Go into a Controller
      5. Best Practices
      6. Summary
      7. Q&A
      8. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      9. Exercise
    17. Hour 6. Understanding Views, Data Binding, and Event Handling
      1. Angular Views
      2. Data Binding
      3. Two-Way Data Binding with ng-model
      4. Data Binding Performance
      5. Multiple Controllers in a View
      6. Multiple Templates
      7. Angular Event Binding
      8. View Best Practices
        1. Template File Organization
        2. Element Attributes
        3. Hiding a Template’s Raw Content
      9. Summary
      10. Q&A
      11. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      12. Exercise
    18. Hour 7. Discovering Services: Part I
      1. Angular Services
      2. Service Versus Factory
        1. Value Versus Constant
        2. Providers
      3. Using Services
      4. Summary
      5. Q&A
      6. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      7. Exercise
    19. Hour 8. Discovering Services: Part II
      1. Using Services for a DAL
      2. Promises and $q
      3. Summary
      4. Q&A
      5. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      6. Exercise
    20. Hour 9. Using Built-In Directives
      1. Angular Directives
      2. Built-In Angular Directives
        1. ng-hide and ng-show
        2. ng-if
        3. ng-class
        4. ng-repeat
        5. ng-click
        6. ng-model
      3. Summary
      4. Q&A
      5. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      6. Exercise
    21. Hour 10. Conquering Custom Directives
      1. Why Custom Directives?
      2. Link Function
        1. DOM Manipulation
      3. Directive Scope
      4. Element Versus Attribute
      5. Summary
      6. Q&A
      7. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      8. Exercise
    22. Hour 11. Depending on Dependency Injection
      1. Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
      2. Dependency Injection in .NET
        1. The Case for DI on the Front End
      3. Using Angular’s DI
        1. Implicit Annotation
        2. Inline Array Annotation
        3. $inject Property Annotation
      4. Summary
      5. Q&A
      6. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      7. Exercise
    23. Hour 12. Rationalizing Routing
      1. Routing in a Single-Page App
      2. Setting Up Routing with Angular
      3. Cleaning Up Your URLs with HTML5 Mode
      4. Executing Code Before a Route Change with a Resolve
      5. Summary
      6. Q&A
      7. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      8. Exercise
    24. Hour 13. Actualizing Application Organization
      1. Angular in a Single File
      2. Breaking Your Application into Separate Files
      3. Organizing Your Application by File Type
      4. Organizing Your Application by Feature
      5. Application Pro Tips
      6. Summary
      7. Q&A
      8. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      9. Exercise
    25. Hour 14. Figuring Out Filters
      1. Examples of Formatting with Built-In Angular Filters
        1. String Casing
        2. Dates
        3. Currencies
      2. Create Your Own Angular Filter
        1. A Better Capitalization Filter
        2. A Better Date Filter
        3. A Better Currency Filter
      3. Using a Filter to Search on ng-repeat
      4. Summary
      5. Q&A
      6. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      7. Exercise
    26. Hour 15. Approaching Angular Patterns
      1. Design Patterns
      2. Controller Patterns and Principles
      3. Service Patterns and Principles
      4. Angular Architecture Patterns
      5. Summary
      6. Q&A
      7. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      8. Exercise
    27. Hour 16. Making Components Communicate
      1. Communication Between Components
      2. Calling Directive Functions from a Controller
      3. Using $watch to Communicate
      4. Using Events to Communicate
      5. Nested Controller Communication
      6. Summary
      7. Q&A
      8. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      9. Exercise
    28. Hour 17. Demonstrating Deployment
      1. Automating Deployment Tasks
      2. Writing Production-Ready Angular Code
        1. IIFEs
        2. Use Strict
      3. Error-Checking Your Angular Code
        1. JSLint
        2. JSHint
      4. Minifying and Concatenating Your Angular Code
      5. Deploying Your Angular Code to Microsoft Azure
      6. Summary
      7. Q&A
      8. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      9. Exercise
    29. Hour 18. Unraveling Unit Tests
      1. Unit Testing in Angular
      2. Karma and Jasmine
      3. Getting Everything Set Up
      4. Testing Controllers
      5. Testing Services
      6. Testing Directives
      7. Summary
      8. Q&A
      9. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      10. Exercise
    30. Hour 19. Destroying Debugging
      1. Debugging Strategies and Tips
      2. Tools
        1. Google Chrome Developer Tools
        2. Firefox Toolbox and Firefox Developer Edition
        3. Internet Explorer Developer Tools
        4. Batarang Chrome Extension
      3. Summary
      4. Q&A
      5. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      6. Exercise
    31. Hour 20. Applying Angular to ASP.NET Web Forms
      1. Strategies for Modernizing Web Applications
      2. Translating Web Forms into Angular
        1. Building Out a Web Forms Example
        2. Changing Web Forms Functionality to Angular
      3. Augment Web Forms with Angular
      4. Summary
      5. Q&A
      6. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      7. Exercise
    32. Hour 21. Applying Angular to ASP.NET MVC
      1. Building a Sample ASP.NET MVC App
      2. Adding Angular to an ASP.NET MVC App
      3. Summary
      4. Q&A
      5. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      6. Exercise
    33. Hour 22. Using Angular with ASP.NET Web API
      1. Single-Page Apps with Angular and Web API
      2. Creating a Simple Web API
        1. Testing Your API
        2. Deploying Your API
      3. Consuming the Web API in Angular
        1. CORS
        2. Writing Services
          1. Section 1: Viewing Artists
          2. Section 2: Adding a New Artist
          3. Section 3: Editing an Artist
      4. Consuming Other APIs with Angular
      5. Summary
      6. Q&A
      7. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      8. Exercise
    34. Hour 23. Using Angular with ASP.NET SignalR
      1. When Should You Use SignalR?
      2. Configuring SignalR
      3. Adding SignalR to the OWIN Pipeline
      4. Sending SignalR Messages in Your API
      5. Receiving SignalR Messages in Angular
      6. Summary
      7. Q&A
      8. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      9. Exercise
    35. Hour 24. Focus on the Future
      1. What’s the Current Status of Angular?
      2. What’s Changing in Angular 2?
      3. How Can You Prepare for Angular 2?
        1. Use the New Component Router (When It’s Ready)
        2. Use ControllerAs Syntax
        3. Learn TypeScript
      4. ES6
      5. Web Components
      6. Why the First 23 Hours of This Book Are More Important Than This Last Hour
      7. Summary
      8. Q&A
      9. Workshop
        1. Quiz
        2. Answers
      10. Exercise
    36. Index

    Product information

    • Title: Sams Teach Yourself: AngularJS for .NET Developers in 24 Hours
    • Author(s): Dennis Sheppard
    • Release date: September 2015
    • Publisher(s): Sams
    • ISBN: 9780134315041