Slide 16.3: AngularJS

AngularJS

AngularJS is for developing heavy web applications. It is a JavaScript framework, and can be added to an HTML page with a <script> tag. AngularJS version 1.0 was released in 2012. Miško Hevery, a Google employee, started to work with AngularJS in 2009. The idea turned out very well, and the project is now officially supported by Google. AngularJS directives are HTML attributes with an ng prefix:

The ng-init directive initializes AngularJS application variables.
The ng-app directive defines an AngularJS application.
The ng-model directive binds the value of HTML controls (input, select, textarea) to application data.
The ng-bind directive binds application data to the HTML view.

AngularJS binds data to HTML with Expressions, which are written inside double braces: {{ expression }}. AngularJS will “output” data exactly where the expression is written.