Alex Vanston

AngularJS is all about directives and this book is all about directives. The book talks about all aspects of a directive and tells us how to use them. Author uses simple language and the examples used make the concepts extremely easy to understand.

Chapter 4 - Compile versus Link is the best chapter of the book and tells why AngularJS team decided to use this 'split' methodology before rendering the final contents. This chapter has a lot of information packed in just a few sentences, so take your time to read it. I myself read this chapter twice before moving on (and I'm sure to read it again soon).

Chapter 7 - Transclusion is another great take away from this book. Alex clears all the mystery around this weird word in a very simple and effective verbiage. His analogy of 'translated-inclusion' to stand for transclusion fits aptly with the example provided in the chapter.

The other chapters talk about how to use scope inside a directive, sharing directive data with controllers are quite an interesting read themselves. The chapters on writing unit and e2e tests are a win for developers as well.

Now for the minuses. The 'Who this book is for' says 'no prior MVC or Angular.JS knowledge is required' - totally not right. I have been working on AngularJS for a few months now and I had to re-read a few paragraphs to understand the concepts. No, this book is definitely not for beginners. If you want to start with AngularJS , try the Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS book by the same publisher ([...]

In the epub version, the lack of code highlighting made it difficult to read through the lines. There are inline-comments that add to the challenge. This can also be improved.

All-in-all, this is one heck of a book… (meer)