Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "This file is called manifest.json."

A block of code is set as follows:

angular.module('krakn.controllers', ['ionic', 'ngAnimate'])
.controller('HomeCtrl', ['$scope', 'syncData', function($scope, syncData) {
  syncData('syncedValue').$bind($scope, 'syncedValue');
}]);

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

angular.module('krakn.controllers', ['ionic', 'ngAnimate'])
.controller('HomeCtrl', ['$scope', 'syncData', function($scope, syncData) {
  syncData('syncedValue').$bind($scope, 'syncedValue');
}]);

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "From the drop-down menu, select the Settings menu item near the bottom."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

From this point forward, I will use a few terms I consider to be relevant industry standard slang and acronyms to enhance your vocabulary when speaking with other developers, watching tutorial videos online, and reading associated literature or blog posts. These include the following terms:

• Angular: This term is a shorthand name referring to all facets of AngularJS and its community.
• Tool Stack: This term is used for a collection of tools encompassing all phases of the development process. These include, but are not limited to, boilerplates/seed projects, code editors, IDEs, code linters, command-line utilities, language abstraction compilers, package managers, local web servers, LiveReload, source/version control and their respective web applications, web browsers / BrowserStack, browser DevTools, testing runners, build tools, server communication clients, and others. For further information, Google search for slides from Paul Irish's presentation entitled Tooling & The Webapp Development Stack.
• DevTools: This term is a shorthand name referring to the Google Chrome Developer Tools. Having contributed to the Chromium Open Source community, I am biased towards Google Chrome and most notably towards the Chrome Developer Tools.
• PaaS: This term is an acronym for Platform as a Service.
• CLI: This term is an acronym for command-line interface.