Sams Teach Yourself AngularJS, JavaScript, and jQuery All in One

In just a short time, you can learn the basics of the JavaScript language, jQuery library, and AngularJS framework, and find out how to use them to build well-designed, reusable components for web applications.

As you complete the lessons in this book, you will gain a practical understanding of how to provide rich user interactions in your web pages. You will learn how to add dynamic code that allows web pages to instantly react to mouse clicks and finger swipes, interact with back-end services to store and retrieve data from the web server, and create robust Internet applications.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common web application development tasks

Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn

Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and skills

Learn how to…

• Create powerful, highly interactive single-page web applications
• Leverage AngularJS’s innovative MVC approach to web development
• Use JavaScript in modern frameworks
• Implement JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS together in web pages
• Dynamically modify page elements in the browser
• Use browser events to interact with the user directly
• Implement client-side services that interact with web servers
• Integrate rich user interface components, including zoomable images and expandable lists
• Enhance user experience by creating AngularJS templates with built-in directives
• Bind user interface elements and events to the data model to add flexibility and support more robust interactivity
• Define custom AngularJS directives to extend HTML’s capabilities
• Build dynamic browser views to provide richer user interaction
• Create custom services you can integrate into many AngularJS applications
• Develop a well-structured code base that’s easy to reuse and maintain

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to AngularJS, jQuery, and JavaScript Development
Lesson 1. Introduction to Dynamic Web Programming
Lesson 2. Debugging JavaScript in Web Pages
Lesson 3. Understanding Dynamic Web Page Anatomy
Lesson 4. Adding CSS/CSS3 Styles to Allow Dynamic Design and Layout
Lesson 5. Jumping into jQuery and JavaScript Syntax
Lesson 6. Understanding and Using JavaScript Objects

Part II: Implementing jQuery and JavaScript in Web Pages
Lesson 7. Accessing DOM Elements Using JavaScript and jQuery Objects
Lesson 8. Navigating and Manipulating jQuery Objects and DOM Elements with jQuery
Lesson 9. Applying JavaScript and jQuery Events for Richly Interactive Web Pages
Lesson 10. Dynamically Accessing and Manipulating Web Pages with JavaScript and jQuery
Lesson 11. Working with Window, Browser, and Other Non-Web Page Elements

Part III: Building Richly Interactive Web Pages with jQuery
Lesson 12. Enhancing User Interaction Through jQuery Animation and Other Special Effects
Lesson 13. Interacting with Web Forms in jQuery and JavaScript
Lesson 14. Creating Advanced Web Page Elements in jQuery
Lesson 15. Accessing Server-Side Data via JavaScript and jQuery AJAX Requests

Part IV: Utilizing jQuery UI
Lesson 16. Introducing jQuery UI
Lesson 17. Using jQuery UI Effects
Lesson 18. Advanced Interactions Using jQuery UI Interaction Widgets
Lesson 19. Using jQuery UI Widgets to Add Rich Interactions to Web Pages

Part V: Building Web Applications with AngularJS
Lesson 20. Getting Started with AngularJS
Lesson 21. Understanding AngularJS Application Dynamics
Lesson 22. Implementing the Scope as a Data Model
Lesson 23. Using AngularJS Templates to Create Views
Lesson 24. Implementing Directives in AngularJS Views
Lesson 25. Creating Your Own Custom Directives to Extend HTML
Lesson 26. Using Events to Interact with Data in the Model
Lesson 27. Implementing AngularJS Services in Web Applications
Lesson 28. Creating Your Own Custom AngularJS Services
Lesson 29. Creating Rich Web Application Components the AngularJS Way