When does Alloy model initialized? - backbone.js

I'm sure that Alloy collection is initialized first before the model. But I'm not sure when does this initialization starts.
Is it after running alloy.js, index.js, or some other .js file?
Is it before the first window opens, or after?
Is there a way to force call the initialization process so I can make sure that the initialization happens at the start of index.js?

You initialize collections or models yourself.
Through js: calling Alloy.createModel(), Alloy.createCollection(), Alloy.Models.instance() or Alloy.Collections.instance()
Through markup: using <Model /> or <Collection /> tag
docs here

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How to use Yandex.Metrika in Meteor+React app?

I have a Meteor app, all UI components are built with React. I use FlowRouter for routing.
Now I want to add analytics with Yandex.Metrika service.
I found this package for React: https://github.com/narkq/react-yandex-metrika
But I how I have to use it? For what reason do I need <YM /> component from this example?
import {Initializer as YM} from 'react-yandex-metrika';
// Use the initializer to add the script to your page somewhere.
var MyComponent = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
<div>
// SNIP
<YM />
// SNIP
</div>
);
}
});
And where should I initialize the tracker object? I read this:
// This is supposed to be executed only in browser and only once.
// Because of that, the most sensible place for this code is right after you javascript bundle.
ym.init([987654321]);
But what is javascript bundle and where should I place my im.init(id) code?
Actually all what I need is to have funsctions to send data to Metrika, such as hit (pageview analog rom ga), reachGoal and so on.
thank you for your answers!
For what reason do I need component from this example?
You need it to load metrika's main code
How metrika works:
webmaster (you) inserts small piece of js code (loader) to all pages. this code append async script with main code (it's a bit bigger than loader) and create instance of metrika object ('counter') - new Ya.Metrika(...params). Instance will be available in global variable named yaCounterXXXXX, where XXXXX is your counter's id.
So, <YM /> component is loader from previous paragraph.
Actually all what I need is to have funsctions to send data to
Metrika, such as hit (pageview analog rom ga), reachGoal and so on.
There is doc about that at the bottom of readme. But I don't see filter by counter id for that methods. Maybe I make a pr to add this functionality. In any case you can use global variable yaCounterXXXXX like this yaCounterXXXXX.hit(url, params) or yaCounterXXXXX.reachGoal(goalId, params)
I hope I helped you.

How does AngularJS handle Memory

I am wondering how AngularJS 'saves' its data/model. Does it actually save it or.. how does it work?
We are using different methods to retrieve JSON data. In other frameworks like jQuery we had to think about how to store data locally, i.e. when we want to provide a sorting possibility. In Angular this seems different, it seems to do all that for us out of the box.
Is it that Angular displays everything how it is supposed to be and looks at changes, reads in the displayed data in and then displays it differently or does it use a local storage to save the raw json.. and work from there? (This would limit the amount of data we can feed)
Here is a simple code-example:
$http.get("url-to-json")
.success(function(returnedData) {
$scope.search_result = returnedData['search_result'];
})
From there I can just use:
<div ng-repeat='result in search_results | sortResult:"price":sorted' id="res_<% result.id %>" class="result">
Product: <% result.name %>
</div>
I am riddled how Angular still knows the data and doesn't have to load it again from the external source.
Do you know?
There is a lot more that goes into it, but essentially its all stored in local memory. Angular creates an object of all your scope properties. When you do data binding in angular you are registering an event listener and when that event is called angular loops through this object detecting if something has changed, and if so updates the object accordingly. Each time an update occurs it returns to the loop to check if anything else has been updated. This is what is referred to as the $digestLoop.
SOURCE
The ng-book

Controller is not a function got undefined, http.post request

I am having trouble with an instance of a controller.
I have a simple navigation tree using this module:http://nickperkinslondon.github.io/angular-bootstrap-nav-tree/test/bs3_ng120_test_page.html
I added a double click function on any leaf, and a directive that compiles, and opens a window using this module: http://codepen.io/m-e-conroy/pen/cFKkG
The window contains a few tabs, and one of these tabs must contain another navigation tree, just like the first one but with different data.
I am also using http://www.simplygoodcode.com/2014/04/angularjs-getting-around-ngapp-limitations-with-ngmodule/ so I can have multiple app on the same page.
Problem is, the second navigation tree that must be loaded doesn't work. I am declaring it, in the html sent this way (moduleAbn is a variable contained in the first .js loaded at start, referecing the module App1):
<script> moduleAbn.controller('AbnTestController2',['\$scope','\$http','\$timeout','\$compile',function(\$scope,\$http,\$timeout,\$compile){
...}]);</script>
<div ng-module='App1'> <div ng-controller='Controller2'>
Doing this, the console shows the famous Controller2 is not a function, got undefined.
The weird thing is, if I declare it with the name of the first navigation tree controller
<div ng-module='App1'> <div ng-controller='Controller1'>
Navigation tree appears, with the same data as the first, but seems to work independently from the other.
I really don't know how do get this working with different data from the first tree...
If I am not being clear, english is not my mother tongue so I can get more specific if you have any questions ;)
Cheers!
You should rename AbnTestController2 to Controller2 when defining it or change it's name in ng-controller= from Controller2 to AbnTestController2.
Second thing you need to check is that App1 has module AbnTest as dependency:
var App1 = angular.module('App1', ['AbnTest'])

Refreshing translations using angular-translate

I'm using angular translate for i18n.
The particular feature I'm working on is updating the status of a book. In the service callback, if successful, I am updating my book status from, say, Open to Closed. If I view the scope (using Batarang), I can see my DOM element as such:
<span translate="Closed" class="ng-scope">Open</span>
As you can see, the translate value is being updated, but the translation itself isn't occurring on its own. I've read the docs and understand this is expected behavior. What I want to know, though, is how should I be refreshing the translated value?
Presently, I'm injecting the $translate service and executing $translate.refresh() every time I update a scope value that needs to be re-translated. I feel like that's clunky, and probably not the way I should be doing it.
Any thoughts?
You definitely should not issue a refresh for this.
just do something like this:
<span> {book.state | translate} </span>
Given that your book model has a member state to reflect it's state.
Whenever the model changes, the value of state will be re-translated.
Create a common service for translation, this will configure our translation code, in particular it will configure the location of our translation files. Create a directory src/common/translation, and a file src/common/translation/translation.js:
http://technpol.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/adding-translation-using-angular-translate-to-an-angularjs-app/
angular.module('angularTranslateApp', ['pascalprecht.translate'])
.config(function($translateProvider, $translatePartialLoaderProvider) {
$translateProvider.useLoader('$translatePartialLoader', {
urlTemplate: '/UI/assets/translation/{lang}/{part}.json'
}
});
$translateProvider.preferredLanguage('en-AU'); });

$compile is only properly inserting my template the first time that I run it

http://embed.plnkr.co/SPGNLd0bcmo2Xt2TAZcB/preview
Here we have a list of personnel information cards. If you click on one, the directive triggers a template to be loaded between that row and the row before it. My problem is that it only works once!
I believe that my problem lies somewhere in my compile statement, but I'm not sure:
$compile(controller.former)(scope);
What honestly baffles me is that even if you just click on the same card over and over again, ignoring all the others, it still just loads the one time. After the first successful load, the Template insertion is coming up empty. that is, isntead of the full template being inserted, i'm just getting:
<!-- ngInclude: 'focus.html' -->
And not the actual template located in that file. Does anybody have any Idea what is going on here?
I apologize in advance for the relatively complex directive, if anybody has any suggestions for refactoring it, I am an open book.
I think the problem I described is in async manner of getting the template from the server side. In case of cached content it didn't work. You used element bind to click which is anti-angular way and non-angular context (thus you needed yo call $apply). And in this case I guess the problem that $scope.apply works before the content of the compiled node itself is processed (because you get the template immediately from the cache). If you call $scope.apply from the $timeout function or (better) change the function to scope function linked with templates via ng-click it works as expected.
I think for the goal are are going to achieve you are taken a bit wrong design which looks a bit weird. Anyway I can show you the problem - you are using separate template which is compiled inside of the ng-include. ng-include directive actually performs $http request with using template cache (default behavior) because of this the data is loaded only once and the template isn't inserted. If you add random seed to the template URL or make $templateCache.remove('focus.html') before compiling that can solve your issue (but I don't think it's good solution as it makes http call each time). You should definitely re-factor your code to make it more clean.
I changed
controller.former = angular.element('<div ng-include="\'focus.html\'"></div>');
to:
controller.former = angular.element('<div><div ng-include="\'focus.html\'"></div></div>');
By wrapping the template into a parent container, I ensure that controller.former is always a reference to a container that holds all of the elements generated during compile time. without this fix, sometimes controller.former would only be selecting the comment node that precedes the inserted material. This resolves causes problems when i'm passing that selector into $animate.enter or $animate.leave, because it ends up only trying to animate that single comment node and ignoring it's next sibling.

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