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angular-restangular-crud

Example of how to use restangular in a way that you DRY too much...

It uses AngularJS with Restangular at the frontend and loopback (https://www.npmjs.org/package/loopback) as the API.

To run it you need node/npm/grunt/bower (and maybe even more packages) installed...

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/beeman/angular-restangular-crud

Install the server and leave it running

cd angular-restangular-crud/api
npm install
node app.js # or nodemon app.js

Install the client

cd angular-restangular-crud/client
npm install 
bower install
grunt

Grunt might show some errors, most of the time it's jslint testing your JavaScript... Fix the errors or override them with --force.

Serve the page

grunt serve

If all went well you can now list/add/view and edit notes.

You can start working in the client directory and most of the changes will be picked up by autoreload (https://www.npmjs.org/package/livereload). Grunt serves the client on port 9000 and the API serves the same app at port 3000, but without the livereload.

It is trivial to create some more models and quickly crank out a simple scaffold, as show below.

Adding a new datatype to this example

We will add an object named 'Host'

Add menu item somewhere around line 30 in app/index.html:

<li ui-sref-active="active"><a href='' ui-sref="hosts.list">Hosts</a></li>

Copy app/scripts/controllers/notes.js to app/scripts/controllers/hosts.js

$ cp app/scripts/controllers/notes.js app/scripts/controllers/hosts.js 

Now edit the new file and search and replace:

find app/scripts/controllers/hosts.js -type f -exec sed -i '' 's/note/host/g' {} \;
find app/scripts/controllers/hosts.js -type f -exec sed -i '' 's/Note/Host/g' {} \;

Create the views:

mkdir app/views/hosts/
cp app/views/notes/* app/views/hosts

Now edit these new files and search and replace:

find app/views/hosts/. -type f -exec sed -i '' 's/note/host/g' {} \;
find app/views/hosts/. -type f -exec sed -i '' 's/Note/Host/g' {} \;

Last but certainly not least, register the new controller in your template:

Edit app/index.html and the following line just before the 'endbuild' line

<script src="scripts/controllers/hosts.js"></script>

Update the API to accept this datatype. Edit api/models.json and add the following code to the object array:

"host": {
  "public": true,
  "dataSource": "db",
  "plural": "hosts"
}

Now restart the API to start accepting the model abov..

Todo

• Add easy DB configuration
• You name it?

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Bram Borggreve

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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