AngularJS: From Beginner to Advanced

AngularJS: From Beginner to Advanced is a practical tutorial on the AngularJS front-end framework by Jiang Rongbo, published by Tsinghua University Press in 2017. The book runs about 335 pages and is organized into two parts: Beginner and Advanced. The Beginner part, Chapters 1 through 14 (with Chapter 15 as a bridge), starts from setting up the AngularJS development environment and writing the first AngularJS application, then introduces two-way data binding (ng-model, ng-bind), MVC concepts and controllers, controller scope, application modularization, scope inheritance and event broadcasting, routing and multiple views (including the $location service, ng-template, ng-include, and UI Router), form validation and ngMessages, built-in and custom directives (the DDO directive definition object), custom form validation, and services. Each topic is accompanied by complete examples such as a price calculator, form validation, and multi-view switching. The Advanced part (Chapters 15–19) turns to the AngularJS ecosystem and front-end engineering, introducing common AngularJS third-party extensions and the mainstream Web front-end toolchain of the time: the package managers Npm and Bower, the streaming automation build tool Gulp, and the unit testing tools Jasmine and Karma; the final two chapters integrate what has been learned to complete an AngularJS version of Minesweeper and a customer management system project. The book is case-driven and close to real practice, suitable as a tutorial for Web front-end beginners learning AngularJS 1.x on their own, and also as a textbook for universities and training institutions. Note that the content is based on the technology stack of the AngularJS 1.x era and was written in 2017; readers should understand its differences from Angular 2 and later versions.