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MEAN Web Development

You're reading from   MEAN Web Development Master real-time MEAN web application development and learn how to construct a MEAN application using a combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783983285
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Amos Q. Haviv Amos Q. Haviv
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Preface 1. Introduction to MEAN 2. Getting Started with Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an Express Web Application 4. Introduction to MongoDB 5. Introduction to Mongoose 6. Managing User Authentication Using Passport 7. Introduction to AngularJS 8. Creating a MEAN CRUD Module 9. Adding Real-time Functionality Using Socket.io 10. Testing MEAN Applications 11. Automating and Debugging MEAN Applications Index

AngularJS services


AngularJS services are singleton entities that are usually used to share information between different entities of the same AngularJS application. Services can be used to fetch data from your server, share cached data, and inject global objects into other AngularJS components. Since there is a single instance of each service, it is also possible to use two-way data binding between different unrelated entities of your AngularJS application. There are two kinds of services: AngularJS prebundled services and custom services. Let's begin by reviewing the former.

AngularJS prebundled services

AngularJS comes prebundled with many services to abstract common development tasks. Commonly used services include:

  • $http: This is an AngularJS service used to handle AJAX requests

  • $resource: This is an AngularJS service used to handle RESTful APIs

  • $location: This is an AngularJS service used to handle URL manipulations

  • $q: This is an AngularJS service used to handle promises

  • $rootScope...

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