laravel4cookbook

E-Commerce 258
There are some awesome things happening in this code. Firstly, we abstract the logic by which we get
categories and products (from the API) into AngularJS’s implementation of services. We also have
access to the $http interface; which is a wrapper for XMLHTTPRequest, and acts as a replacement
for other libraries (think jQuery) which we would have used before.
The two services each have a method for returning the API data, for categories and products. These
methods return things, called promises, which are references to future-completed data. We attach
callbacks to these, within the ProductController, which essentially update the controller data.
So we have the API data, but how do we render it in the interface? We do so with directives and
data-binding:
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32 @{{ product.name }}