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In this video we go through an introduction to using Angular UI, and using Angular UI directives in place of Bootstrap JavaScript components. We also start to set-up our ‘Update Customer’ Modal window.

We look at:
– Using Angular UI Bootstrap for JavaScript Bootstrap components
– When custom directives would be used to include vanilla JavaScript to an Angular App
– An Introduction to Angular UI: http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/
– Working through an example of Angular UI for modal windows
– How the Angular UI modal examples ties back to the example code
– Including Angular UI model code back in our app to create an Update Customer Modal

In this video we’ll continue setting up our Update Customer Modal instance using Angular UI. We’ll focus on formatting and styling the Modal window to include the fields and styles that we need based on our wireframes.

We look at:
– A recap of our Angular UI Customer Update Modal
– Connecting to the customers scope to pass a selected customer’s details through to our Modal
– Updating the html template so that we have the formatting and styles as per our wireframes
– Testing to see if our Modal works with our ng-click directive
– Updating our html styles based on styles which are already part of the modal classes
– Passing through the details of a selected customer to the Update Modal

In this video we continue styling the Create Customer Page and look at some Angular functionality. We also create our first Customer Record.

We look at:
– Using CSS to style the Create Customer Page
– Create a new Customers CSS File
– Increase the size of the User Glyphicon
– Align the Referred Checkbox to the left using CSS
– Use ng-class to dynamically change the colour of the User Glyphicon based on the Referred checkbox
– Check if we can create a Customer Record without logging in
– Log into the App so that we can use the Customers Menu
– Create our first Customer record
– Look at how $location can be used to route a user to a new view

In this video we’ll style our AngularJS Create Customer Modal, and create our first customer using our new Modal. We’ll then add functionality to delete Customers from our list.

We look at:
– A quick recap of opening up our new Create Customer Modal
– Changing the ng-class reference for the Referred field (from danger to pink)
– Making the Surname field a required field
– Creating a reference from our model fields back to our controller
– Creating a new customer using our Create Customer Modal
– Checking our console logs to tell if our record was saved
– Refreshing the page to show our new customer record
– The functions that are still missing from our Controllers
– Adding ‘Delete’ functionality to our controller
– Adding a new button with ng-click to call the delete functionality
– Deleting a customer record from our list of customers

In this video we’ll continue setting up our Update Customer Modal instance using Angular UI. We’ll focus on the buttons within the Modal to trigger the update function, save the data and close the Modal window, or cancel out of the Modal window.

We look at:
– A recap of our Angular UI Customer Update Modal
– Locating the ‘ok’ and ‘cancel’ functions from the Angular UI documentation
– Adding the ‘ok’ and ‘cancel’ functions to the Update Modal instance
– Aligning our button details to our wireframes
– Adding the update function to the Customers Update Controller
– Adding a reference to the update function from the Update Modal
– Testing out our Model by updating customer details

In this video we’ll prepare our mean.js app and get it ready to deploy!!

We look at:
– Using the Grunt Build command to create our application files
– Setting up a new MongoDB for production
– Hooking our new MongoDB instance in our production file
– Commit our file changes using Git

Woohoo now we’re ready to deploy!

In this video we’ll continue setting up our Update Customer Modal instance and controller so that we can select a customer record and pop open the Modal. We’ll also do a quick test to see if we can send the details of a selected customer and display the details on the Update Customer Modal.

We look at:
– A recap of adding Angular UI model code back in our app to create an Update Customer Modal
– Setting up our Modal Instance and Controller
– How we pass a selected customer’s details through to our Modal
– How we choose the template that we want to use (to display the html layout) within our Modal
– Selecting pieces of Angular UI example code to set up our Modal controller instance
– Testing to see if our Modal works by hooking it into an ng-click directive
– Passing through the details of a selected customer to the Update Modal

In this video we’ll make some final changes to our Update Customer Modal instance using Angular UI. We’ll use the AngularJS data-model references and classes, as well as an introduction to Form validation with AngularJS.

We look at:
– A recap of our Angular UI Customer Update Modal
– Using the AngularJS curly brackets to display the name of customer in the Modal
– Updating the refererence to the ‘referred’ data model
– Updating the colour of the User glyphicon when the referred icon is checked using ng-class
– Form validation by adding mandatory fields to our Modal
– Adding a Form name to reference our Form from our Controller
– Checking to see if a Form is valid from within our Controller
– Disabling the Save & Close button when the Form is invalid

In this video we’ll use Angular directives and Bootstrap plus a bit of CSS to begin to format our List Customers Page. During the video, we also have a look at Angular Filters and a reference to the Angular documentation for Filters.

We look at:
– Setting up the List Customers Page
– An introduction to Angular Filters
– AngularJS Documentation for Filters on the angular.org website.
– Using population to display the name of the user who created a Customer record
– Using Bootstrap and Angular to format our List of Customers
– Using Bootstrap columns to display differently depending on the device used
– Using CSS to style our User icons