Introduction to AngularJS

Igor Minar, tech lead for AngularJS at Google, walks us through the basic features of AngluarJS by building a to-do list application. A great place to start for folks who are new to Angular. From the 2012 AngularJS meetup in Mountain View, CA.

[stephanarsenault]

Great video for my needs, all the important points explained in under 10 minutes.

[ricardobotti]

Great intro on how to keep anyone with even a bit of interest away from even trying Angular.  Whatever Angular is.  Run away from it like a bat out of hell.

[bDcKtR]

Welcome to AngularJS. Let's just jump right in

[dandymcgee]

Too all the disappointed commentators: This is an "introduction" to a few of Angular's basic features, *not* a tutorial.

There are many tutorials and alternative introductions available on YouTube and the Angular website for people who are not already familiar with similar libraries or web development as a whole.

There is a really good AngularJS tutorial available for free on CodeSchool's website:

P.S. I totally agree that the description of this video is misleading. This is *not* "a great to start for folks who are new to Angular". This is basically a tech demo of 3 out of 1, 000 things that Angular is capable of.

[noisygrass]

This is a really poor video and I don't mean the quality (although it's horrible too) but the way he explains things. Let it do someone who can. I'd never thought that Google can present such a crap.

[dziugas]

If this video introduces anything it's confusion... I don't have anything bad to say about AngularJS, because I've never used it before. For this presentation they could have used some charts or graphics to explain what are the features first. Jumping straight into coding with AngularJS isn't helping anyone

[claudiorodriguezrodriguez]

Loved it, it gives very good introduction of what the framework can do. Thank you. I guess people just confuse Introduction with Chapter 1. 

[tomk]

A great example of experts being horrible teachers.

[oldmanklc]

This is a good intro if you're already exposed to other client side MVC frameworks. I've been using ember.js for a few years and this video gave me a little bit of an idea of what Angular is about. Can I go write an angular.js app now without looking at other videos? No. But at least I understand some fundamentals that are there that I was curious about, like bindings. I might even be able to have a conversation with someone who writes Angular apps now.

TL;DR - Stop shedding so many nerd tears about this video. It was ok for what it is.

[DanielRamBeats]

Ahh this makes sense now. Model your data in the Javascript and use $scope to link to it in the DOM.

[ibuprofenPill]

If you're trying to persuade people to use anualarJS, this video is accomplishing the exact opposite of that goal.

[frostmelody]

AngularJS seems to be the new buzz word in web atm so I can came across this video thinking it was gonna blow me away... instead I get a half assed presentation with no real intro and clear step by step instructions on what is going on and what Angular is trying to achieve. Not a good start!

[madst]

It is covered in tutorial step 7 on their homepage

[Xxpr]

The one thing stopping me from trying AngularJS is the lack of examples of single page apps using multiple controllers / views. Can you please do an example of this? Eg: A simple Gmail of an "Inbox" that is replaced with "Contacts" etc and how any "Zombie Events" etc are cleaned up.

[bolpin]

The screen shots are too small and blurry to read.

[hpdvs]

This video was good for me as I've already been reading up on it and looking at some other confusing tutorials, but it is not an introduction to angular js.  Creating the controller is barely touched on, and that is a major component to using it.  I also agree that the video/audio quality was very poor.  But otherwise it was sort of helpful for me.  I just wish they made a better video.  perhaps something made for web, not for a room of people - Thanks.

[TheShadetheory]

Is the source code used available for download anywhere? I wanna follow this video but don't want to pause it and type it step by step since this is not a step by step tutorial as stated by another commenter. Also anyone know of any good "tutorials" for beginners?

[ssshammi]

Jquery does the same thing. This is not a good example for a start. esp when data is in a separate js file, like username is inline to js. can anyone tell me why should i use angular?

[Xxpr]

Not really when it's using one single ng-view that replaces everything. I'd like to see a contextual menu that changes between inbox/contacts just like gmail does rather than having to copy / paste the structure for every single template.

[NickSayre]

This is a decent demonstration of how to hook up the MVC in AngularJS, but probably not a very good introduction. It's a useful video, poorly titled.