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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
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Automating tasks with Zappier


As we know, Angular is a frontend framework and we need a server side mechanism to send emails. My original solution - which was functioning very well up until a few weeks ago - was a mechanism to connect all backend players together and trigger them to take the necessary action at the right time. Go to zapier.com and have a look at the amazing job those people have done in connecting different web applications and cloud services.

With their service all I needed to do was create a new zap and connect Firebase to Sendgrid (the service for sending emails). That way Firebase will act as a trigger and every time there is a new child added to the 'rated-news' table, it will signal zappier about it. On receiving this signal, Zapppier will make the Sendgrid send an email - containing all the useful info about the new child - to the user.

It might sound like a lot of configurations (Zappier account, Firebase console, and Sendgrid keys) but believe me when I say it turns...