blogular

Blogular is a simple set of exercises to learn how to develop a web application using AngularJS

Run the project

With Docker

$ docker-compose up

Without Docker

Prerequisite

$ npm i -g gulp bower nodemon
$ npm i
$ bower install

Commands

• Run the app: npm start

Steps

Step 1 - Databinding

• Change Hello World to add your name using databinding
• Add a text input to set the name
• You do not need to use a js file

Step 2 - Create a controller

• Create your first controller to define your name in the home page

Step 3 - Scope inheritance

• Test the scope inheritance creating another controller

Step 4 - Load data from JS

• Replace the hard coded list of articles by a dynamically loaded list using ng-repeat

Step 5 - Form usage

• Use the databinding to get the data from the form to the controller
• Display the created object in the console

Step 6 - Article creation

• Add the new article in the list of articles
• Use the controller inheritance to add the new article

Step 7 - ControllerAs

• Use controllerAs in the HTML

Step 8 - Event

• Add the new article in the list of articles
• Use event to add the new article

Step 9 - http

• Fetch data from http

• Create new articles using POST requests

• GET: /api/articles to get the list of articles

• POST: /api/articles to create a new article

Step 10 - Router

• Use ngRoute to define your routes
  • / for the home (and by default)
  • /articles for the list of articles

Step 11 - Delete an article

• Use the delete button to delete the article

• DELETE: /api/articles/:id to delete an existing article

Step 12 - Edit an article

• Create a new route to visualize and edit an article

• GET: /api/articles/:id to get one article using its id

• PUT: /api/articles/:id to update an existing article

Step 13 - Form validation

• Add form validation on the modal
  • title required
  • content between 10 and 300 chars
  • disable the create button when the form is invalid

Step 14 - Create a service

• Create a service for the CRUD of articles

Step 15 - Use $resource

• Change the article service to use $resource
• Implement the update function using the PUT method

Step 16 - Filters

• Add filter do display date using a usual format
• Add a filter to display the title in uppercase

Step 17 - Search

• Use the search input to filter the list of articles
• Bind category buttons to filter by category

Step 18 - Sort

• Use sort buttons to sort by title or by date
• Reverse the sort when clicking a second time on the same button

Step 19 - Create a filter

• Create a filter to display a default picture when the article has no picture set

Step 20 - ngSwitch

• Use the ngSwitch directive to select the display mode (list / table)

Step 21 - Create a directive

• Create a custom directive to display articles in the list

TODO

Step 0 - Gulp

• Setup a gulp task to serve an application

Step 22 - Provider

• Transform the service into a provider and create a method to set the api URL

Step 23 - UI-Router

• Replace ngRouter by ui-router
• Setup a view header and put the navbar inside it
• Use ui-router event to to display a loading animation

Step 24 - Optimization

• Use optimization mechanisms to reduce the amount of watchers

Step 25 - Filters

• Use filters in controllers instead of views

Step 26 - Promises

• Add a new route to display an article

• In the resolve, chain promises to get all informations from an article

• GET: /api/articles/:id to get the title, author, categories and date

• GET: /api/articles/:id/content to get the content

• GET: /api/articles/:id/picture to get the picture url

Step 27 - Create a directive with transclude

• Create a directive to display the list of categories
• Use transclusion to give the template

Step 28 - Form element

• Transform your directive to use it as a form element
• Create a sync validator to check the author name (should have a firstname and a lastname)
• Create an async validator to check (for new articles) if the title is already used

Step 29 - Translation

• Use angular-translate to display the site in two language (json files provided)
• Allow to change the language by clicking on the flag in the navbar

Step 30 - REST

• The API is in the wrong format, use transformers to make the application works

Step 31 - Interceptors

• When getting a 401 http error, display the login modal

Step 32 - CSRF

• The server ask for a csrf, change headers to make the form work

Step 33 - Unit test: Controller

• Create a unit test for the ArticleController

Step 34 - Unit test: Directive

• Create a unit test for both validators

Step 35 - Unit test: Filter

• Create a unit test for the picture filter

Step 36 - Unit test: Service

• Create a unit test for the Article service

Step 37 - E2E test

• Create an e2e test for the Articles page

Credits

Training created by Sylvain CAU

Follow me on Twitter @SylvainCau