Learning AngularJS

Separation of Responsibilities

An extremely important part of designing AngularJS applications is the separation of responsibilities. The whole reason you choose a structured framework is to ensure that code is well implemented, easy to follow, maintainable, and testable. Angular provides a very structured framework to work from, but you still need to ensure that you implement AngularJS in the appropriate manner.

The following are a few rules to follow when implementing AngularJS:

■ The view acts as the official presentation structure for the application. Indicate any presentation logic as directives in the HTML template of the view.

■ If you need to perform any DOM manipulation, do it in a built-in or your own custom directive JavaScript code—and ...