JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

• How to create and build (compile and package) an Ionic project using the CLI (Command Line Interface).

• How to start from one of the Ionic starter apps

• How to build a modern mobile UI using Ionic components such as side menu, cards, action sheets, etc.

• How to create a service using the Angular resource module (ngResource) to access REST services

• How to use controllers

• How to use routing

• How to login with Facebook, and publish information to your feed

I want my unit test to verify that the $scope object has the right areas and that when the click event happens, the $rootScope variable is set correctly.
We are going to mock the areaService object with fake data and we'll also tell the controller injection service to use our mock.

ngCordova is a set of AngularJS extensions on top of the Cordova API to make it easier to build, test, and deploy Cordova apps with AngularJS.

Like most people, when I first started learning Angular I found it to be a very high quality foundation for building great apps, and doing it quickly. Testability, dependency injection, separation of the logic/view layer, and designer-developer harmony are all great things us devs can get behind, and Angular had it in spades.

But we all know it's hard to get by on just merit alone, and the verdict is always going to be out on whether Angular is really technically better than the alternatives (developers are notoriously unwavering when it comes to tech wars).

No, in order for a technology to be truly, incredibly successful, it needs to become more than just a quality framework. It has to become a platform.

A demo of a directive which add a fancy search bar to filter data. It can filter / search from promises sources and preloaded sources. For the promises demo, I used Web SQL, so it's Chrome/Safari only compatible (but 100% compatible with the SQLite Cordova plugin :D)

AngularJS is turning out to be one of the best frameworks for building mobile apps across all major platforms.

One reason that Angular fits so well into the mobile developer toolbox is its features for interacting with backend web services and external data sources. Since most apps today are data-driven, it makes sense to use a tool built from the ground up to solve this problem.

Beyond that, AngularJS comes with some of the most modern and advanced software development practices ready-made and easy to use. You'll find that building mobile apps with Angular is highly efficient and results in solid code that will scale up as you pile on the features.

* Three-way data binding

* Reusable logic

* Testability

* Among Friends

* Mobile UI with Ionic

* Go forth and build

In my previous post, I wrote about Ionic, a new UI framework that’s built on top of AngularJS and that provides mobile-optimized UI components to build high-performance hybrid applications that look and feel native. I also shared an employee directory sample application built with Ionic and AngularJS.

In this post, I’ll share the same application connecting to the salesforce.com platform using the Force.com Mobile SDK. After authenticating with OAuth, the user can search for contacts by name, and then call, text, or email the selected contact.