AngularJS Web Application Development Cookbook

When I was first looking for thorough angular.js examples and recipes in the wild, I was mightily disappointed with the scant resources available and was almost turned off by angular for this very reason. This book really fixed that for me and became a start for me to dive in further.What I really like about this book is how the author dives in each of the example, elaborating each example code and makes it easy to understand what's going on (book comes with the source code which you can download). The recipes are a real problem solving experience in real world scenarios which helped me to critically think about the way angular can lend itself to problem-solving.As my understanding of angular.js deepened and I had a chance to write some real world projects with it, I found myself going back to this book again and again. The author has done a masterful job of breaking down the various angular.js concepts and showing numerous examples of how to use each one with common gotchas. I think that this book does a great job as a reference "cookbook".I refer to the book all the time as I work on my angular.js projects. I would recommend this book to anyone building angular projects and even frontend developers simply looking to explore the latest technologies in the space. If practice makes you stronger, this book should be in your shelf or digital reader.

A really useful cookbook filled with many current Angular tips and hacks. It's probably not a great resource for new Angular devs, but it doesn't pretend to be (it is a cookbook), nevertheless its recipes are easy to ramp up into and have a very helpful tone to them. Also, the author does a great job of defining core Angular concepts and features in shorter sentences, often better than what you've read elsewhere and you'll find yourself reaching for your highlighter.Several chapters probably represent the best instructional walkthroughs or reference documentation on Angular features. The chapter on promises not only covers the basics but also presents a few useful features that I'd missed or sped past in the Angular docs online, such as the way when() works and also tips on how to work with chained promises. Plus, the pieces on the $templateCache were very helpful and sparked some great internal brainstorming on how I can make use of this in the app run() block.So while the topic of many of the chapters has been covered in greater detail in whole books devoted to the subject (unit/end-to-end testing, directives, services), the level of depth is still more than sufficient for this cookbook to be extremely useful. I think it would be a great book for an Angular dev coming off of their first or second beginner's book and ready for the next level of depth.

I'm giving it 3-stars but this says more about me than the book at the moment. I just wanted to highlight that this is not a book for AngularJS beginners. I have a programming background and can build simple angular apps but this book starts off at a very advanced level. I'm sure I'll pick it up again later when I'm ready for it, but this book contains no bridge between angular basics and what it tries to teach you.

The author explains each of the concepts using commented code examples. Doing so makes it really easy to follow, because each example builds one small concept, and it's written in a way to focus on the code itself.The author also has put each example on JSFiddle. I've been messing with them, which has been super helpful.I've tried other books and tutorials before this, and understanding Angular has been a struggle. But so far, this book has been very helpful.-Ben

Still one of the premier texts available for AngularJS 1. You'll find yourself coming back to this to use as a reference text, and the book's structure makes it easy to get in, find what you need, and apply it.

Extremely bad explanations of subjects. Code download is NOT freely available unless you email PACKT publishing. I bought Kindle version. Now waiting for PACKT publishing to send me a link to download the code. All other books I have purchase have a free download for the code. So apart from bad explanations, no code download available unless you contact the publishers, poor index off subjects I REALLY LIKED this book?!

This book is a good reference to understand AngularJs.It explains the use of directives with many tips and examples.

Eh ... had high hopes for this book but it fails. Save your money.

For what it is - a cookbook - it does it's job quite well.The book doesn't waste time messing about, explaining the Angular framework, or hypothesizing about the future of the framework, or any other framework for that matter. It dives right into the "recipes", and stays focused throughout. It's easy to navigate, easy to read, and very easy to go back to when you need to look up some tip that you remember reading about.As an experienced developer who might quickly get the gist of how directives, scope etc. work, you might ask what you would learn from a book of this sort? Well - you know that your code works, but if you're having doubts about if you're doing it right, following best practices, optimizing where you should, and overall - like me - know how to work with the framework, but need a foundation of expert advice to reassure yourself that you're on the right path, then I can recommend this book for you.The author generally does a good job with the recipes, and I particularly liked the chapters about animations and "Screaming Fast AngularJS" - and Promises, since I never took the time to introduce myself to them properly.The book does seem a bit short, though, and sometimes it feels like the author repeats very similar code snippets just to keep the page count up (it's about 327 pages). Generally, I was satisfied with what I learned from it, so it was well worth the buy for me.