tylerb33 / AngularJS-travel-site

Wide World Travel Guides - NSS Practice Exercise

Part 1: Using a controller

Create the following file structure:

world_wide_travel
 |_ app
 |    |_ controllers
 |    |     |_ bookCtrl.js
 |    |
 |    |_ app.js
 |
 |_ data
 |    |_ guides.json
 |
 |_ lib
 |    |_ gulpfile.js (or gruntfile.js)
 |
 |_ index.html

Add the follow data to guides.json. You will need to display all three pieces of information about each book, in any format you choose.

{
  "guides": [{
    "type": "city",
    "title": "Paris on $10 a Day",
    "price": 18.99
  }, {
    "type": "city",
    "title": "Venice: Canals and Stuff",
    "price": 14.50
  }, {
    "type": "city",
    "title": "Visiting Hoboken: Why?",
    "price": 1.25
  }, {
    "type": "country",
    "title": "Touring Brazil's Empty Olympic Stadiums",
    "price": 13.50
  }, {
    "type": "country",
    "title": "'Murica: Only Commies Travel Abroad",
    "price": 20.00
  }, {
    "type": "country",
    "title": "Australia: Every Animal Here Can Kill You",
    "price": 18.00
  }, {
    "type": "region",
    "title": "Backpacking Europe on Two Showers a Week",
    "price": 12.48
  }, {
    "type": "region",
    "title": "Rainforests of Cental America",
    "price": 15.00
  }, {
    "type": "region",
    "title": "The Evil Genius Guide to Taking over the Tri City Area",
    "price": 13.49
  }]
}

Remember to also add a .gitignore to the project root folder.

cd into lib and run npm init then install all of your dependencies for your task runner. Remember to use the --save-dev flag to add them to your package.json file.

Install Angular with npm install angular. Remember to add the script tag for angular to index.html.

Now you have the basic structure in place to display your book data in the DOM the Angular Way.

Requirements

For this project you need to use Angular to list a collection of travel guides in the DOM. Build an application that has one view, and one controller that will be responsible for retrieving the data and exposing it for use in the view. The view needs to list all book titles, which type of book it is, and the price for the book.

Fetch your data using an http call that returns a promise. Save the returned data as a property of the $scope object and loop through it to display the guidebook info to the user.

Here's a list of some things to include in your app in the appropriate spots:

• Directives:
  • ng-app="<your module name>"
  • ng-controller="bookCtrl"
  • ng-repeat="book in books"
• A call to the data folder for guides.json using $http
• Use the $q service to wrap your http call in a promise
• $scope.books = <your array of guide books data>