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AngularJS Web application development Cookbook

You're reading from   AngularJS Web application development Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes to architect performant applications and implement best practices in AngularJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783283354
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthew Frisbie Matthew Frisbie
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Maximizing AngularJS Directives FREE CHAPTER 2. Expanding Your Toolkit with Filters and Service Types 3. AngularJS Animations 4. Sculpting and Organizing your Application 5. Working with the Scope and Model 6. Testing in AngularJS 7. Screaming Fast AngularJS 8. Promises 9. What's New in AngularJS 1.3 10. AngularJS Hacks Index

Using ng-bind instead of ng-cloak

The ng-cloak directive is a workable solution to the rendering latency problem, but to the seasoned developer, blanking out the entire page or sprinkling ng-cloak throughout the application's templates seems like a suboptimal solution. In many scenarios, a more elegant fix would be to display as much of the page as possible and interpolate data as it is calculated to make the page load seem snappier to the end user.

How to do it…

The {{ }} interpolation syntax in AngularJS causes problems when the template loads, and is displayed before compilation can occur. The following is an example:

<div ng-controller="PlayerCtrl">
  Player: <span>{{ player.name }}</span>
</div>

If this template is displayed before compilation, it will suffer from the uncompiled template flash problem and display Player: {{ player.name }} momentarily.

The ng-cloak fix is as follows:

<div ng-cloak ng-controller="PlayerCtrl">
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