Last week, we had a look at Mocking Angular’s $http Promise return type using the $q library. This gives you a great deal of control over when your mock promises are resolved. But, it comes at the cost of requiring both the $q library and manually calling $rootscope.$apply().
If you want to avoid those (and you don't…
The Angular $http service provides an easy way to interact with an API endpoint. If you want to query some data, you can simply do this:
var request = $http.get('/api/items');
request.success(function (data) {
console.log('I have data', data);
});
The request object above is an Angular HTTP promise (ng.IHttpPromise…
Our team made the move to TypeScript and Angular at the tail end of last year. I'd had a look at Angular a year or so ago but struggled to get my head around the excessive usage of $scope and the nesting of $parent items that needed to be traversed.
Since then (with version 1.2.0), Angular now supports Controller As…