Angularjs / JQuery / JS · August 21, 2014 1

Very simple and basic angularjs routing application

Hi guys, I am gonna write a very basic and simple angular js routing application, purpose of writing this article is
just to provide quick start with angularjs routing

Here we go.
I am gonna create a simple application “mailApp”, I will create an angularjs module and will configure this with my html file.
First thing we need is to create a html file where we configure our angularjs application.
I create index.html with following code

index.html

<html>
<head>
<title>My angular routing</title>
<meta content="">
<style></style>
<script src="http://angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://angular-route.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://app.js"></script>
<script src="http://controllers.js"></script>
</head>
<body>


</body>

</html>

As you might noticed ng-app=”mailApp” this is how we bind our mailApp with index.html.

To get start using angularjs we need two js files either download from angularjs or use cdn
1. angular.min.js
2. angular-route.min.js

If you want to use cdn that is even more easy.

//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.12/angular.min.js
//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.12/angular-route.min.js

all setup with angularjs, lets create our application.

I have divided my application in two files

1. app.js: module and configuration
2. controllers.js: controllers

It is good idea to keep controllers separate to have code more manageable

lets start with app.js

Create new js file name it app.js

app.js


var mailApp = angular.module('mailApp',['ngRoute', 'mailControllers']);
mailApp.config(['$routeProvider',
  function($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider.
      when('/test', {
        templateUrl: 'template.html',
        controller: 'testController'
      }).
      otherwise({
        redirectTo: '/home'
      });
  }]);

In above code I have created my mailApp and registered it with angularjs with dependency of ngRoute and mailControllers,
ngRoute is the angularjs routing api and mailControllers is controller package defined in our controllers.js

I have defined a route if url is #/test then it should call my testController (Defined in controllers.js) and attach template.html
as a view (you can place some html in tmeplate.html file)

Note: template.html file should be location in path relevant to url.

Lets write controllers.js to create mailControllers package.

controllers.js


var mailControllers = angular.module('mailControllers', []);

mailControllers.controller('testController', ['$scope', '$http',
  function ($scope, $http) {
      
      /*
        $http.get('phones/phones.json').success(function(data) {
	  $scope.phones = data;
        });
      */
      
      alert("Hurray... my controller is on");

    //$scope.orderProp = 'age';
    
    
  }]); 

I have registered my controllers package “mailControllers” with angularjs
Now I create testController and register it with mailControllers.

That’s it. Now run your index.html file in browser and you will see the alert.

cheers!!!