Jim Lavin - AngularJS Services [2014, PDF, ENG] + Code

Preface
Chapter 1: The Need for Services
AngularJS best practices
Responsibilities of controllers
Responsibilities of directives
Responsibilities of services
Chapter 2: Designing Services
Measure twice, and cut once
Defining your service's interface
Designing for testability
Services, factories, and providers
Structuring your service in code
Configuring your service
Chapter 3: Testing Services
The basics of a test scenario
Loading your modules in a scenario
Mocking data
Mocking services
Mocking services with Jasmine spies
Handling dependencies that return promises
Mocking backend communications
Mocking timers
Chapter 4: Handling Cross-cutting Concerns
Communicating with your service's consumers using patterns
Managing user notifications
Logging application analytics and errors
Authentication using OAuth 2.0
Chapter 5: Data Management
Models provide the state and business logic
Implementing a CRUD data service
Caching data to reduce network traffic
Transforming data in the service
Chapter 6: Mashing in External Services
Storing events with Google Calendar
Using Google Tasks to build a brewing task list
Tying the Google Calendar and task list together
Chapter 7: Implementing the Business Logic
Encapsulating business logic in models
Encapsulating business logic in services
Models or services, which one to use?
Controlling a view flow with a state machine
Validating complex data with a rules engine
Chapter 8: Putting It All Together
Wiring in authentication
Displaying notifications and errors
Controlling the application flow
Displaying data from external services
Building and calculating the recipe
Messaging is the heart of the application
Index