What this book covers

This book is broken down into nine chapters.

Chapter 1, Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application, talks about the concept of a Single Page App and how they are different from the regular web apps. We'll also learn about the basics of AngularJS by building a simple Address Book App.

Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Rig, talks about how having the right set of tools can be a huge productivity booster. It also makes you feel like a pro when building your AngularJS app. This chapter will talk about some of the tools such as Node.js, ExpressJS, Grunt, Yeoman, and Karma.

Chapter 3, Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS, talks about the ease with which one can create clickable prototypes to get a feel of how an application would look and feel before working on any backend code.

Chapter 4, Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App, will show you how to consume data from third-party REST web services using factories and the $http service.

Chapter 5, Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App, will explain directives and how we can create our Facebook login directive. We will also set up some automated tests to ensure everything is working fine.

Chapter 6, Building an Expense Manager Mobile App, will walk you through the process of building a responsive and touch-friendly mobile app using ngAnimate and HTML5 features such as localStorage.

Chapter 7, Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack, talks about how to set up an entire backend and frontend system and how AngularJS interacts with a node server and MongoDB database. We will also look at session management and interceptors.

Chapter 8, Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS, will teach you about AWS and its various services, and how we can deploy our app in a Server-less Architecture that can inherently scale.

Chapter 9, Building an E-Commerce Store, will show you how to directly read and write data from AWS's DynamoDB database, and upload images to S3 directly from our JavaScript app.

Appendix, AngularJS Resources. Well, you know what to expect here.