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Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development Make use of Node.js to learn the development of a simple yet scalable cross-platform mobile application

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785280498
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up Your Workspace FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Persistence with MongoDB 3. Creating an API 4. Securing Your Backend 5. Real-Time Data and WebSockets 6. Introducing Ionic 7. Building User Interfaces 8. Making Our App Interactive 9. Accessing Native Phone Features 10. Working with APIs 11. Working with Security 12. Working with Real-Time Data 13. Building an Advanced Chat App 14. Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework Index

Connecting Parse to our project

In order to connect the Parse data to our project, we will need to create an AngularJS service that performs the necessary CRUD operations to interact with the Parse REST API.

The code editor of our choice is Atom, the GitHub open source editor. Start by adding the project folder to Atom by navigating to it:

File | Add Project Folder

Create a file named services.js with the following path:

www | js | services.js

Start by connecting the services. Define the service as follows:

angular.module('ionictodo.services',[]).factory('Todo',['$http',function($http){
  return {

  }
}]);

At this stage, our factory object Todo is an empty object, and we will need to add the necessary Parse.com API methods to it. It's important to note that the hostname is https://api.parse.com in all cases. /1/ means that we are using version 1 of the API.

The following is the factory object with the five required methods:

angular.module('ionictodo.services...
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