If you are like many developers you've picked up a little bit of one framework or library and a little bit from others. The problem is that you haven't yet crossed the bridge into really getting deeply proficient in one framework. Angular is a case in point, at least for me. The initial entry point was fine, but I then hit their fabled jag into the more difficult parts and it slowed me down a lot. This book does a really good job in helping an intermediate developer get past the initial learning stage for Angular and into more constructive code. In particular, at least for me, it helped to get into writing directives, into seeing more into services/factories and most especially into seeing how data could be handled with Firebase.Firebase offers some intriguing advantages for the right kind of data. I mainly work with relational databases, so this part felt more like an example of how databases could be integrated. But, seeing how quickly data can be integrated with the Angular code and how three way data binding can be explored quickly has made me re-think the possible role of Firebase in a development stack.There are a few places where I felt that the material tried to reach too many audiences at the same time. The introductory material was fine, but not particularly new. Similarly, it was nice to have Yeoman and Git, along with editors covered in the Appendices. But I would have appreciated more information about data structures for Firebase and still more code examples about different types of applications and AngularFire. So, this book may not be right for you if you are trying to get from an intermediate stage to a more advanced stage. But for beginner/intermediate level programmers that want to get a clearer sense of how data can be handled in the Angular framework, this is really an excellent book.One note, really for all Angular books out at this writing, is going to be how they fare with Angular 2. Right now its too early to tell, but if you are looking at this book with a desire to learn Angular 2, make sure to check if the code has been updated. That's probably obvious, but seemed important to point out.So, in summary, if you know the basics of Angular, but haven't yet started to really write and understand directives and/or you want to get a better sense for how to handle noSQL like data stores with Angular, this is an excellent resource.

Technologies like Firebase are very interesting as they signal a reduced role for server-side applications, as front-end fat clients can directly access data in many use cases. This isn't to say Firebase (a cloud service) offers no way for you to implement custom scripts (ie, for complicated non-OAuth authentication processes specific to your own company) or secure your data from unwanted access or rule out processing-intensive analytics performed by existing server side applications, it still allows for all of that. But where it really shines is by exposing your data via RESTful APIs (accessible by client or some analytics-heavy server side application) and also abstracting away the monotonous setups of data validation and authentication so you can focus on writing your front-end UI application (or server-side analytics tools in Node, Python, Java, Ruby, etc.). But the biggest draw to this technology right now might be the 3-way binding feature, where Firebase communicates data changes instantly via WebSocket technology to either your front-end clients or server-side applications. It's an exicting technology that has already scaled well to the most recent political elections in the U.K. (see Google I/O 2015 video on Firebase), and it could help shape the way NoSQL technologies and cloud services package products and features together for web developers and data scientists in the future.For the web developer needing the ability to rapidly prototype and deploy a new application in a framework like Angular, this book is a great tutorial and paints a solid picture of the intended workflow of front-end development with a relatively simple backend setup. Although the book is targeted mostly at beginner's I think it's a good refresher for seasoned Angular devs who need to familiarize themselves with "best practices" that will help them prepare for easier transitions to the newer versions of Angular on the horizon.One critique I've leveled against some Angular books published this year (like Brad Dayley's "Learning AngularJS") is they teach "last year's patterns". Front-end frameworks are going through some rapid shifts in the past year and will continue until much of the ES6 and Web Component heavy standards fully sink-in, so it's probably important right now for devs to be making whatever small or large steps towards those standards that they can afford for the time being. For devs new to Angular, I think it's severely unfair to offer them tutorials that teach them old patterns or lead them into "scope soup" traps that can befall Angular developers. So even some of the best Angular books to date (ie, Adam Freeman's "Pro AngularJS") have limited value now in prepping for the transition in JavaScript development. This book however, is current and thorough and in my opinion, now the best beginner's resource out there for new Angular devs.My only critique on this book is his coverage of the infamous "service vs factory" topic. He doesn't spend too long on the topic and although the piece he brought up contributes to the topic, it is insufficient alone to properly represent it. Although he's one of the few who actually make an Angular factory follow a true factory design pattern (amazing how common it's become in Angular development to make factories that don't create new instances of objects), he doesn't showcase newing-up Services and how to use prototypal inheritance in services to bring out some really useful featurues. Perhaps a couple more pages devoted to the topic would have been all that was needed.One reason this book is so valuable right now for beginner's is because the author links together old and new Angular patterns, so any new Angular dev can step into a company and know not only the better patterns going forward but also how to interpret the existing Angular codebase they're working in. For example, the controllerAs syntax is introduced later in the book, where its benefits can be more clearly showcased after having brought the reader through earlier, simpler examples without it. And that is perhaps what impressed me most about this book is the author's solid teaching style; he doesn't bludgeon the reader with a massive amount of complexity, nor does he rob them of the truly useful depth and detail they need to be proficient. You're introduced to concepts in small, usable pieces (which usually resemble the Angular 1.0 best practices) and then taught to refine them and shown why to do so later. And as each newer "best practice" is taught, he provides several solid references that if you explore them you'll find to be solid well-explained articles that can be useful if you find you have to justify yourself in a debate with a fellow dev over best practices.The book ramps up from Angular basics to Firebase basics and caps off with a final chapter that puts it all together into a very usable mock application. And to add on appendices that cover git (complete with resolving real world merge conflicts), dependency management through npm and bower, and I think you've got a tremendous resource for developers new to the open-source world who want to rapidly develop solid web applications.

For Javascript developers this book is a great utility to learn AngularJS. For those who are first timers in javascript/angular, learn the basics of the framework before buying this book.This book covers features of angularjs, getting data through ajax, creating your own muscle (directives), and firebase. Firebase is a NoSQL database which saves JSON data in it. This book gives decent introduction to it and tips on how to arrange your data model for efficient data retrieval.The book then talks about AngularFire, which is a plugin for angular to firebase. The book has covered a lot of topics but not a deeper analysis and understanding. But for beginners/intermediate learners this is far too much to know.

Escolhi este livro por causa dos exemplos com o firebase. Gostei muito e já coloquei em prática. É uma boa publicação para quem procura exemplos de como usar o angularjs integrado com o banco de dados firebase.