Chapter 4. Models and services
This chapter covers
- The vital role that models and services play
- Different types of services and how to create them
- Using $http to communicate with remote servers
- How promises handle asynchronous communication
- Using $http interceptors
- How to use decorators to enhance services
- Testing models and services
If a controller is supposed to be lightweight and only concern itself with the view it’s controlling, what happens when you need functionality to be available to your entire application? If a controller should never communicate directly with other controllers, how do they share information? Whereas controllers are constrained to a specific context, AngularJS services exist to provide functionality that’s ...
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