Learning AngularJS

Implementing a Database Access Service

In this example you will build an intermediate database access service that uses the $http service to connect to a simple Node.js server that will act as a server-side database service. The purpose of this exercise is to illustrate the usage of built-in services alongside custom services. This also gives a good example of utilizing the $q service.

Listing 10.5 implements the Node.js web server that handles the following GET and POST routes to get and set a user object and an array of table data to simulate making requests to a remote database service:

■ /get/user: A GET route that returns the JSON version of a user object.

■ /get/data: A GET route that returns the JSON version of an array of table data. ...