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Angular Services

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Angular Services

Overview of this book

A primary concern with modern day applications is that they need to be dynamic, and for that, data access from the server side, data authentication, and security are very important. Angular leverages its services to create such state-of-the-art dynamic applications. This book will help you create and design customized services, integrate them into your applications, import third-party plugins, and make your apps perform better and faster. This book starts with a basic rundown on how you can create your own Angular development environment compatible with v2 and v4. You will then use Bootstrap and Angular UI components to create pages. You will also understand how to use controllers to collect data and populate them into NG UIs. Later, you will then create a rating service to evaluate entries and assign a score to them. Next, you will create "cron jobs" in NG. We will then create a crawler service to find all relevant resources regarding a selected headline and generate reports on it. Finally, you will create a service to manage accuracy and provide feedback about troubled areas in the app created. This book is up to date for the 2.4 release and is compatible with the 4.0 release as well, and it does not have any code based on the beta or release candidates.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Angular Services
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

The collector wire-frame


This application is about investigating articles and news and finding the truth about them. So as the very first step we need to find them. The Collector's task is to fetch original news or articles from the given sources and organize them based on our desired format. The news/articles source could be anything. It could be a plain URL, an XML file, or simply a keyword which we can search to find related news. That means the user interface for the Collector will contain a couple of input boxes to enter a URL, RSS feeds or trending keywords, and a submit button.

Depending on the entry, we need a logic (we will see it will be a service) which processes the request, fetches the contents, figures out the title, body, the news source and the URL for each content, and saves them into a database table for future usage. The following diagram describes the work-flow in the Collector:

The collector component

Looking at the preceding diagram, it indicates that we need a component...