Ari Lerner

This book is extremely detailed when it comes to AngularJS. A good number of chapters in this book are only paragraphs in a few other books - that is how much information is packed in this book. However, beginners - this book is not for you. Try Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS by Pawel Kozlowski, get acquainted with the basics and then pick up this book. I'm sure you'll truly appreciate Ari's efforts after that.

The chapters on Events and Animation are very well explained. The Events chapter helps you to understand what exactly is happening behind the 'closed doors of AngularJS' and how to tap all that potential in order to build a great application. The chapter on Animation tells all the basic wiring you need to do so that AngularJS can play them correctly. The chapter also indicated that my CSS3 animations and transitions skills were way too 'novicey'!!

It was nice that the Testing chapter talked a good deal about using Karma and Angular Scenario for end-to-end testing. The chapter also shows how to setup Protractor to do your e-2-e testing. I only wished it was the other way around, mostly because Angular Scenario is going away and Protractor is taking over. Ari, please provide lot more examples using Protractor.

The chapters in the beginning have snippets on jsbin.com that readers can just click and start playing. Nothing like getting hands-on and start experimenting and learning. Some of the later chapters are missing this, for example, examples in the Animation chapter could definitely have them.

The last couple of chapters talk about optimizing and debugging AngularJS apps. These were no doubt helpful and added more to my skill set!

TYPOS - My biggest issue with the book. I read replies from Ari on other comments saying he is working on getting them fixed.… (más)