Improve this DocExternal AngularJS Resources

This is a collection of external, 3rd party resources for learning and developing AngularJS.

Articles, Videos, and Projects

Introductory Material

• 10 Reasons Why You Should Use AngularJS
• 10 Reasons Why Developers Should Learn AngularJS
• Design Principles of AngularJS (video)
• Fundamentals in 60 Minutes (video)
• For folks with a jQuery background

Specific Topics

Application Structure & Style Guides

• AngularJS Styleguide
• Architecture, file structure, components, one-way dataflow and best practices
• When to use directives, controllers or services
• Service vs Factory

Testing

• Unit testing: Using Karma (video), Karma in Webstorm

Mobile

• AngularJS on Mobile Guide
• AngularJS and Cordova
• Ionic Framework

Deployment

General

• Javascript minification: Background, ng-annotate automation tool
• Analytics and Logging: Angularytics (Google Analytics), Angulartics (Analytics), Logging Client-Side Errors
• SEO: By hand, prerender.io, Brombone, SEO.js, SEO4Ajax

Server-Specific

• Django: Tutorial, Integrating AngularJS with Django, Getting Started with Django Rest Framework and AngularJS
• FireBase: AngularFire, Realtime Apps with AngularJS and FireBase (video)
• Google Cloud Platform: with Go
• Hood.ie: 60 Minutes to Awesome
• MEAN Stack: Blog post, Setup, GDL Video
• Rails: Tutorial, AngularJS with Rails4, angularjs-rails
• PHP: Building a RESTful web service, End to End with Laravel 4 (video)
• Meteor: angular-meteor package

Other Languages

• ES6, Webpack, and JSPM Starter Project
• ES6/Typescript Best Practices
• Dart
• CoffeeScript Tutorial

More Topics

• Security: video
• Internationalization and Localization: Creating multilingual support
• Authentication/Login: Google example, AngularJS Facebook library, Facebook example, authentication strategy, unix-style authorization
• Visualization: SVG, D3.js
• Realtime Communication: Socket.io, OmniBinder

Tools

• Getting Started: Comparison of the options for starting a new project
• Debugging: Batarang
• Editor support: Webstorm (and video), Sublime Text, Visual Studio, Atom, Vim
• Workflow: Yeoman.io and AngularJS Yeoman Tutorial

Complementary Libraries

This is a list of libraries that enhance AngularJS, add common UI components or integrate with other libraries. You can find a larger list of AngularJS external libraries at ngmodules.org.

• Advanced Routing: UI-Router
• Authentication: Http Auth Interceptor
• Internationalization:
  • angular-translate
  • angular-gettext
  • angular-localization
• RESTful services: Restangular
• SQL and NoSQL backends:
  • BreezeJS
  • AngularFire
• Data Handling
  • Local Storage and session: ngStorage
  • angular-cache
  • Data Modeling JS-Data-Angular
• Fileupload:
  • ng-file-upload
  • blueimp-fileupload for AngularJS
• General UI Libraries:
  • AngularJS Material
  • AngularJS UI Bootstrap
  • AngularStrap for Bootstrap 3
  • KendoUI
  • Wijmo
• Specific UI Elements:
  • ngInfiniteScroll
  • ngTable
  • AngularJS UI Grid
  • Toaster Notifications
  • textAngular Rich Text Editor / contenteditable (Rich Text Editor / binding to contenteditable)
  • AngularJS UI Map (Google Maps)

General Learning Resources

Books

• AngularJS Directives by Alex Vanston
• AngularJS Essentials (Free eBook) by Rodrigo Branas
• AngularJS in Action by Lukas Ruebbelke
• AngularJS: Novice to Ninja by Sandeep Panda
• AngularJS UI Development by Amit Gharat and Matthias Nehlsen
• AngularJS: Up and Running by Brad Green and Shyam Seshadri
• Developing an AngularJS Edge by Christopher Hiller
• Mastering Web App Development by Pawel Kozlowski and Pete Bacon Darwin
• ng-book: The Complete Book on AngularJS by Ari Lerner
• Professional AngularJS
• Recipes With AngularJS by Frederik Dietz
• Responsive Web Design with AngularJS by Sandeep Kumar Patel

Videos:

• egghead.io

Courses

• Free online: thinkster.io, CodeAcademy, CodeSchool
• Paid online: Pluralsight, Tuts+, lynda.com, WintellectNOW (4 lessons), Packt
• Paid onsite: angularbootcamp.com