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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints: A practical guide to developing powerful web applications with AngularJS

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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

Chapter 2. Setting Up Your Rig

I'm sure you would have heard the saying, "A tool man is known by the tools he keeps." OK fine, I just made that up, but that's actually true, especially when it comes to programming. Sure you can build complete and fully functional AngularJS apps just using a simple text editor and a browser, but if you want to work like a ninja, then make sure that you start using some of these tools as a part of your development workflow.

Do note that these tools are not mandatory to build AngularJS apps. Their use is recommended mainly to help improve the productivity.

In this chapter, we will see how to set up and use the following productivity tools:

  • Node.js
  • Grunt
  • Yeoman
  • Karma
  • Protractor

Since most of us are running a Mac, Windows, Ubuntu, or another flavor of the Linux operating system, we'll be covering the deployment steps common for all of them.

Setting up Node.js

Depending on your technology stack, I strongly recommend you have either Ruby or Node.js installed.

In case of AngularJS, most of the productivity tools or plugins are available as Node Package Manager (npm), and, hence, we will be setting up Node.js along with npm. Node.js is an open source JavaScript-based platform that uses an event-based Input/output model, making it lightweight and fast.

Let us head over to www.nodejs.org and install Node.js. Choose the right version as per your operating system.

The current version of Node.js at the time of writing this book is v0.10.x which comes with npm built in, making it a breeze to set up Node.js and npm.

Tip

Node.js doesn't come with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), so to use Node.js, you will need to open up your terminal and start firing some commands. Now would also be a good time to brush up on your DOS and Unix/Linux commands.

After installing Node.js, the first thing you'd want to check is to see if Node.js has...

Setting up Grunt

Grunt is a JavaScript-based task runner. It is primarily used for automating tasks such as running unit tests, concatenating, merging, and minifying JS and CSS files. You can also run shell commands. This makes it super easy to perform server cleanups and deploy code. Essentially, Grunt is to JavaScript what Rake would be to Ruby or Ant/Maven would be to Java.

Installing Grunt-cli

Installing Grunt-cli is slightly different from installing other Node.js modules. We first need to install the Grunt's Command Line Interface (CLI) by firing the following command in the terminal:

npm install -g grunt-cli

Mac or Linux users can also directly run the following command:

sudo npm install –g grunt-cli

Make sure you have administrative privileges. Use sudo if you are on a Mac or Linux system. If you are on Windows, right-click and open the command prompt with administrative rights. An important thing to note is that installing Grunt-cli doesn't automatically install Grunt...

Yeoman – the workflow tool

Yeoman prefers to be known as a workflow rather than just a tool. It is actually a collection of three tools that help you manage your workflow efficiently. The tools that come as a part of Yeoman are as follows:

  • Yo: This is a scaffolding tool and using the numerous generators available, one can quickly create the skeleton of your project. Yo has a generator to build AngularJS apps and we will be using that later in this chapter.
  • Grunt: This is used to run the tasks that will help you preview, test, and build the app.
  • Bower: This is an ideal tool for dependency management. Yeoman uses it to automatically search and download the necessary scripts.

Let's go about installing Yeoman and playing around with it a bit.

Installing Yeoman

To install Yeoman, make sure you are running it with administrative privileges. Enter the following command in the terminal:

sudo npm install –g yo

Next, let's install the AngularJS generator using the following command...

Unit testing with Karma

Writing automated unit tests for your AngularJS app is one of the best practices, the AngularJS team has been strongly advocating this right from the start. Every sample code on the www.Angularjs.org site has automated test cases along with it.

Keeping in line with the same philosophy, Yeoman too bakes in some sample unit tests using Karma. While Yeoman would automatically install Karma and its dependencies, let us, nevertheless, make sure the following modules are present in the node_modules folder:

  • karma
  • karma-chrome-launcher
  • karma-jasmine

In case you don't find them in your node_modules folder, install them using the npm install command. Next, make sure your karma.conf.js file looks like the following:

module.exports = function(config) {
  config.set({
    basePath: '',
    frameworks: ['jasmine'],
    files: [
  'bower_components/angular/angular.js',
  'bower_components/angular-mocks/angular-mocks.js',
  'bower_components...

Using Protractor for End-to-End tests

As we saw earlier with Karma, we can write unit tests that will make sure that our code in the controllers is working well; however, it would fall short if you wanted to run automated User Acceptance Tests (UAT) or run tests that simulate user-driven interactions with the browser. For running such tests, we'll need to use another new tool called Protractor.

Protractor replaces the earlier AngularJS scenarios as the default End-to-End testing framework for testing AngularJS apps.

Protractor runs on WebDriver.js, which in turn makes use of the Selenium Server. Selenium is one of the most popular browser-automation tools. In this section, we will see how to set up a standalone instance of Selenium Server, install Protractor, and run a default set of End-to-End tests with it.

Let's first install Protractor by running the following command in the terminal:

sudo npm install –g protractor

This will install Protractor globally.

Installing Selenium...

Summary

This completes our chapter on setting up your rig. We worked through quite a few tools, namely Node.js, Grunt, Yeoman, Karma, and Protractor. While I strongly recommend making use of all of them when you build your AngularJS projects, you may feel free to choose the ones that suit your project the best.

Another thing to note is that most of these tools such as Node.js, ExpressJS, and Grunt can be used for any non-AngularJS projects. So getting familiar with these tools is surely beneficial for all frontend developers.

In the next chapter, we are going to see how to quickly build a clickable prototype using Angular-UI.

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If you are a web application developer interested in using AngularJS for a real-life project, then this book is for you. As a prerequisite, knowledge of JavaScript and HTML is expected, and a working knowledge of AngularJS is preferred.

What you will learn

  • Gain a powerful understanding of AngularJS and singlepage applications that you can apply to your own development projects
  • Explore AngularJS directives feature and write your own custom directives
  • Build complete and professional applications ranging from social media and mobile web applications to CMS and an ecommerce store
  • Discover strategies and techniques for harnessing REST web services and Facebook APIs in your applications
  • Deploy applications using the highly scalable Amazon Web Services cloud solution
  • Develop rapid prototypes to create an impressive UI using Bootstrap's grid system
  • Get to grips with MEAN web development and create a CMS with a MEAN stack

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1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application
Delving into Single Page Apps
Anatomy of a simple AngularJS app
Models and views
Building an Address Book App
Styling the app
Adding contacts to the Address Book
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2. Setting Up Your Rig Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Setting Up Your Rig
Setting up Node.js
Setting up Grunt
Yeoman – the workflow tool
Unit testing with Karma
Using Protractor for End-to-End tests
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3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS
Understanding the application that we will Prototype
Introducing Grid Layouts and Bootstrap
Understanding the grid system
Introducing Angular UI
Prototyping the Healthy Living website
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4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App
Understanding the response from a REST API
Jump starting your app development with Angular Seed
Mark-up our Layout
Creating the routes
Understanding AngularJS services
Writing your first factory service
Using promise for asynchronous calls
Displaying data from the JSON response
Unit testing our application
Mocking $http during Unit testing
Creating a Pinterest style layout
Adding actions to the buttons
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5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App
Understanding the Facebook SDK
Setting up our project
Delving into AngularJS directives
Adding a Facebook login
Getting the user's friend list
Getting your friends' profile pictures and birthdays
Adding some CSS styles
Adding in the logout link
Writing automated tests
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6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App
Understanding HTML5 Web Storage
Building the Expense Manager App
Building the Add Expense form
Building a bar chart directive based on D3
Summarizing the expenses by categories
Making the app responsive
Adding touch events
Adding page transitions using ngAnimate
Making the app feel like a native app
Adding additional features
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7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack
Why the MEAN stack?
Getting started with the MEAN stack
Building the server-side app
Securing your admin section
Integrating AngularJS with an ExpressJS project
Generating SEO-friendly URLs using HTML5 mode
Building the admin section for CRUD operations
Building a custom module for global notification
Setting up an Interceptor to detect responses
Building the frontend of our CMS
Displaying the content of a page
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8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS
Understanding the various services in Amazon AWS
Delving into AWS deployment architectures
Deploying our app in a Server-less Architecture on AWS
Getting your app ready for production deployment
Performance
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9. Building an E-Commerce Store Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Building an E-Commerce Store
Backend as a Service
Building a BaaS platform on AWS
Creating our e-commerce app
Prototyping our application
Creating our application-level controller
Integrating AWS JS SDK with our application
Building our Add Products page
Creating our product details page
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A. AngularJS Resources Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. AngularJS Resources
Official resources
Recommended AngularJS modules
Boiler plates
Learning resources
Good friends with AngularJS (third-party tools and services)
Core team members and knowledgeable people to follow
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I'm still new at learning JavaScript, JavaScript libraries, scaffolding tools, and so on. This is one of the best books I have read. When I focused on the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node), I read Haviv's " MEAN Web Development ," by the same publisher. Haviv's book is thorough and informative in its own right; however, I realized I needed to understand AngularJS better.Rufus's book brought up to speed on AngularJS pretty quickly. For example, the "Setting up your rig" chapter was very helpful (a lot of other books assume you already know this--but I'm still getting started and didn't know what would be helpful in the AngularJS world). The example apps Rufus shows how to build incorporate a good spectrum of bells and whistles--and weren't too much over my head. The icing on the cake for me was the MEAN app project that Rufus presents toward the end of the book.
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  • You can download them an unlimited number of times
  • You can print them out
  • They are copy-paste enabled
  • They are searchable
  • There is no password protection
  • They are lower price than print
  • They save resources and space
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Packt eBooks are a complete electronic version of the print edition, available in PDF and ePub formats. Every piece of content down to the page numbering is the same. Because we save the costs of printing and shipping the book to you, we are able to offer eBooks at a lower cost than print editions.

When you have purchased an eBook, simply login to your account and click on the link in Your Download Area. We recommend you saving the file to your hard drive before opening it.

For optimal viewing of our eBooks, we recommend you download and install the free Adobe Reader version 9.