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planner is a demo front-end web app using Angular Material and Firebase. The purpose of this project is to understand how setup quickly and easily an Angular project with a good architecture.

Test the app

Online : https://planner31.firebaseapp.com/ or from your computer:

Requirements

Developed with:

• Node.js v4.4.1
• npm v2.14.20
• Gulp CLI v1.2.1 (if you don't have it run npm install --global gulp-cli)
• Sass v3.4.22 (if you don't have it got here http://sass-lang.com/install)

Clone it !

Be sure to have previous requirements installed on your computer.

• Clone the repo on your computer (or download it as zip).
• Open your terminal and go to the project directory.
• Run npm install.
• Run gulp, you should see the server starting in the terminal.
• Go to http://localhost:4000.

😄 Please feel free to fork this project and make pull requests ! 😄

Explanations

• Calling order

  • app.config()
  • app.run()
  • app.controllers()

• Gulp automates tasks like starting the server, browserify js files, watch changes automatically...

• Browserify allows us to use require() in our js files like in Node.js but for front-end development. Because of Gulp browserify takes all the required files in the app/ directory and concatenate them into a single file understandable by browsers in public/js/.

  • To use require('nameOfDirectory') you must put in the directory a index.js file wich contains a require('file.js') for each file in the directory. (example in app/controllers/)
  • If we don't use browserify the browser cannot understand require() statements.

• All calls to Firebase must be in a service not a controller (example in app/services/EventService.js).

• To share data between controllers we must use a service and store the shared data and then notify controllers of the update (example in app/services/SharedService.js). Do not forget to inject the service in the controller (example in app/controllers/PlannerCtrl.js).

• To use Firebase hosting juste install Firebase CLI (npm install -g firebase-tools) and then run in your project directory firebase init and firebase deploy.

Angular best practices

Naming and location conventions

Element	Naming style	Example	File	Location
Modules	lowerCamelCase	angularApp	angularApp.js	app/
Controllers	Functionality + 'Ctrl'	AdminCtrl	AdminCtrl.js	app/controllers/
Directives	lowerCamelCase	userInfo	userInfo.js	app/directives/
Filters	lowerCamelCase	userFilter	userFilter.js	app/filters/
Services	UpperCamelCase	User	User.js	app/services/
Views	lowerCamelCase	mail	mail.ejs	public/views/

Controllers structure

• The structure of a controller's file is :

angular.module('nameModule').controller('NameCtrl', NameCtrl);

function NameCtrl() {
  var vm = this;
  //vm.fields...
  //vm.methods...
  ]
}

• Example (app/controllers/PlannerCtrl.js):

angular.module('planner').controller('PlannerCtrl', PlannerCtrl);

function PlannerCtrl() {
  var vm = this;
  vm.schedules = [
    {
      id:'1',
      time:'8h - 10h',
    },
    {
      id:'2',
      time:'10h - 12h',
    }
  ]
  //...
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.