ionic/angularjs app construction - angularjs

When making an ionic app what is the best method of creating different pages of information?
Right now I have separate html documents for each page and a button pointing to each html document; however, I feel like angular/ionic provides a better way of doing so that I missed. For example, the app I am making has a main page with buttons for 5 places. Each button loads a completely new html document with info about the place labeled on the button.
If it is too much to explain, a link answering what I am asking is fine
Thanks

What you want are angular templates. You can write a template once, and then pass in information from the controller to take the place of the angular bindings. You have one master template, that changes the angular bindings depending on which information you pass it in the controller.
For example, you could have your application load in partial templates for each location, and display them all on your main page without having to hit a new html document. Check out the example in the Angular Tutorial.
And the Live Demo

You can do it by uiROUTER, For example: angular.module('ionicApp', ['ionic']) .config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) { $stateProvider .state('menu', { abstract: 'true', templateUrl: 'templates/menu.html', controller: 'MenuCtrl' }) / ... / .state('menu.work', { url: '/work', views: { menuContent: { templateUrl: 'templates/work.html', controller: 'WorkCtrl' } } }); $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/work'); });

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How do I load Angular code behind routes modularly?

I want to organize my angular code like this:
project/
thing/
thing.js
view.html
other_thing/
other_thing.js
view.html
Then I want to include routing that picks the thing based on url params:
$routeProvider
.when('/thing', {
templateUrl: 'thing/thing.html',
controller: 'thingController'
})
.when('/other_thing', {
templateUrl: 'other_thing/other_thing.html',
controller: 'otherThingController'
});
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
What I'm missing is how to load thingController and otherThingController on demand. If I've got 50 different controllers I don't want to load all of them up front, I want to wait until the client actually visits the route to load the js, similar to how the templateUrl isn't loaded until the user navigates there.
May be this will help you
ocLazyLoad
angularAMD

how to setup ui-router nested views

I am trying to setup my app with ui-router. I am familiar with basic nested views but I am wanting to do something more complex. I have my basic setup for the main views. I would like to have a chat popup that has its own views that are independent from the main views. I want to be able to navigate the main views and not affect the states in the chat popup. So how is this done? Do i need to have a abstract state for the chat? and then have nested views from there?
here is a visual.
and here is a plunker
plunker
$stateProvider
.state('root', {
abstract: true,
views: {
'#': {
template: '<ui-view />',
controller: 'RootCtrl',
controllerAs: 'rootCtrl'
},
'header#': {
templateUrl: 'header.html',
controller: 'HeaderCtrl',
controllerAs: 'headerCtrl'
},
'footer#': {
templateUrl: 'footer.html',
controller: 'FooterCtrl',
controllerAs: 'footerCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('root.home',{
parent:'root',
url:'/home',
templateUrl:'home.html',
controller: 'HomeController',
controllerAs:'homeCtrl'
})
.state('root.about',{
parent:'root',
url:'/about',
templateUrl:'about.html'
});
});
I suggest that, don't use footer as a ui-view, because it is completely independent of your states.
Then how?
Make your footer part as a template and use ng-include to render your footer part.
<footer ng-include="'/footer.html'"></footer>
And within footer.html you can specifies the controller for the footer view.
Benefits
No need to handle footer on each state
No need to pass chat history on every change in state.
Create Chat service/function with controllers in different js files and inject to the index.html and script.js. use bootstrap collapsible modal for pop-up chats.
Looking # your plunkr, you're on right track,though injecting controller from script.js via controllerAs is not scalable for larger app.
Instead you can create js files for each controller and service and separate partial views, just need to inject the services and controllers to index.html and mention partial views in stateprovider function.
I am not sure if You want to use route for the chat but there are two ways for you may be more
Use modals that can collabse and open when clicked like that of facebook here
Modals for bootstrap
Use angulars ngHide ngShow
For your navigation while using at sub elements on chat you can create one state for the chat and nest chat navigation in to you chat state so that any state change will not change your other chat states.
That means you will need to use substate concepts of ui-router

Angular Js + UI router, more than one module each with each owns ui routes config - how?

I have a main app on my application, called "bionico", this app utilizes UI-router
It has it's own $stateProvider configurations!
And that's fine, it works
BUT I needed to create a new module (cuz I'm trying to insert a step-by-step form on my application, you can find the code here: https://scotch.io/tutorials/angularjs-multi-step-form-using-ui-router)
To make this step-by-step form I need to create a new module with it's own $stateProvider configurations, the thing is that it doesn't work, I have included this module called "bionico.formApp" in my main app like this:
angular.module('bionico', ['ui.router', other modules, 'bionico.formApp'])
And that works fine, if I try to use a controller inside "bionico.formApp" it will also work fine. This is the code for this module:
// create our angular app and inject ngAnimate and ui-router
// =============================================================================
angular.module('bionico.formApp', ['ngAnimate', 'ui.router', ])
// configuring our routes
// =============================================================================
.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('form', {
url: '/form',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form.html',
controller: 'formCtrl'
})
// nested states
// each of these sections will have their own view
// url will be nested (/form/profile)
.state('form.profile', {
url: '/profile',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form-profile.html'
})
// url will be /form/interests
.state('form.interests', {
url: '/interests',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form-interests.html'
})
// url will be /form/payment
.state('form.payment', {
url: '/payment',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form-payment.html'
})
// catch all route
// send users to the form page
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/form/profile');
})
// our controller for the form
// =============================================================================
.controller('formCtrl', function($scope) {
// we will store all of our form data in this object
$scope.formData = {};
$scope.test = "FUNCIONA";
// function to process the form
$scope.processForm = function() {
alert('awesome!');
};
});
But to make this form work I need to use <div ui-view></div> and when I put this on my file nothing happens, and I think it's because the app is using my main module "bionico" $stateProvider configurations and not "bionico.formApp"
Here is my html code:
<div ng-controller="formCtrl">
<!-- views will be injected here -->
<div ui-view></div>
{{test}}
the {{test}} from formCtrl works fine, it is printing the variable on my screen, but like I said ui-view is not. Is there a way to tell angular that I want to use "bionico.formApp" configurations and not the configs from my main module?
How would you solve this?
Like I think I have to tell angular that from that moment on I want to use "bionico.formApp" but I don't know how to do it.
I've tried
<div ng-app="bionico.formApp"> but nothing happened, not even errors
I saw then on stack over flow that I have to bootstrap it manually, but then I got an error saying that "bionico.formApp" had already been bootstraped
Update
People suggested that I only needed to rout stuff in only one module, but I needed two different default routs one for my main application and one or my form, but that wouldn't work.
and the reason why I was trying to make this work was because I needed a step by step form (wizard) on my application like this one: https://scotch.io/tutorials/angularjs-multi-step-form-using-ui-router)
But I've decided it is not worth the hassle, I'll try to find another wizard for angular js
I'm using now this walktrough wizard:
https://github.com/mgonto/angular-wizard
It was easy to install and it is very easy to customize the template, I recommend!

Displaying separate data from API in different places on page in Angular

I have a SPA that will display data from an API in two separate parts of the page. One section displays products and prices. This information will remain on the page. The other section is a basic CRUD view. It allows the user to create new selections, read their selections, edit their selections, and remove their selections. I'm trying to determine the best way to display these two views. The CRUD section uses ng-view. Should the price/product section use a directive, a separate controller, or should I break up the page into two modules?
I'm new to Angular, and want to make sure that I do things right to avoid unforeseen issues down the road.
HTML:
<div ng-view="">
<!--user selections go here -->
</div>
<!--Product/Price info will go here. Unsure whether to insert ng-app="new module", ng-controller="new controller", or a directive with its own element-->
Javascript for user selections view:
myApp.config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/list', {
templateUrl: 'views/list.html',
controller: 'ProjectListCtrl as projectList'
})
.when('/edit/:projectId', {
templateUrl: 'views/detail.html',
controller: 'EditProjectCtrl as editProject'
})
.when('/new', {
templateUrl: 'views/detail.html',
controller: 'NewProjectCtrl as editProject'
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/'
});
});
Factory for CRUD / user form section:
myApp.factory('Projects', function($firebase, fbURL) {
return $firebase(new Firebase(fbURL+'/projects')).$asArray();
});
Factory for product list/price section:
myApp.factory('Products', function($firebase, fbURL) {
return $firebase(new Firebase(fbURL + '/products')).$asArray();
});
The native Angular router is limited when creating complex and nested UIs, but AngularUI Router is a great alternative and very widely used. If you want to include multiple views in your interface then this is the way to go. It's not much more complicated than the native router but the wins are huge.
AngularUI Router is a routing framework for AngularJS, which allows you to organize the parts of your interface into a state machine. Unlike the $route service in the Angular ngRoute module, which is organized around URL routes, UI-Router is organized around states, which may optionally have routes, as well as other behavior, attached.
Here's a Plunker to demo your particular case: http://plnkr.co/edit/xZD47L?p=preview
With ui-router you can name views
<div ui-view="viewName"></div>
and include templates and controllers in the corresponding ui-router configuration
myApp.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
// For any unmatched url, redirect to /
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/");
$stateProvider
.state('home',{
url: "/",
// list your views
views: {
"viewName": {
templateUrl: "viewName.html" ,
controller: "viewNameCtrl"
}
}
})
});
Checkout this Wiki for Multiple Named Views.
I hope this helps.

Angular App with more than one entry point

so, i'm writing a really simple application using angular, and i basically just want to be able to route my requests to their respective pages but also use those pages as views such that the following views:
-- html
main-app.ejs
-- views
faq.ejs
about.ejs
home.ejs
register.ejs
are available by going through the main app, but the user can also get there just by putting in the following respectively:
/faq
/about
/home
/register
any ideas?
I was thinking something like this could work:
app.get('/views/:viewName', routes.view);
app.get('/:app?', routes.app);
Where I basically just point the request to the main app, but that doesn't work at all because when the page loads and the following router takes hold:
app.config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/', {
templateUrl: '/views/home',
controller: 'sliderController'
}).when('/faq', {
templateUrl: '/views/faq',
controller: 'faqController'
});
});
the default page always loads

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