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# Hello World!
A great way for you to get started with `angular` is to create the tradtional
"Hello World!" app:
1. In your favorite text editor, create an HTML file
(for example, `helloworld.html`).
2. From the __Source__ box below, copy and paste the code into your HTML file.
(Double-click on the source to easily select all.)
3. Open the file in your web browser.
Hello {{'World'}}!
The resulting web page should look something like the following:
Now let's take a closer look at that code, and see what is going on behind
the scenes.
The first line of interest defines the `ng` namespace, which makes
`angular` work across all browsers (especially important for IE):
The next line downloads the `angular` script, and instructs `angular` to process
the entire HTML page when it is loaded:
(For details on what happens when `angular` processes an HTML page,
see {@link guide/dev_guide.bootstrap Bootstrap}.)
Finally, this line in the `` of the page is the template that describes
how to display our greeting in the UI:
Hello {{'World'}}!
Note the use of the double curly brace markup (`{{ }}`) to bind the expression to
the greeting text. Here the expression is the string literal 'World'.
Next let's look at a more interesting example, that uses `angular` to
bind a dynamic expression to our greeting text.
# Hello World!
This example demonstrates `angular`'s two-way data binding:
1. Edit the HTML file you created in the "Hello World!" example above.
2. Replace the contents of `` with the code from the __Source__ box below.
3. Refresh your browswer window.
Your name:
Hello {{yourname}}!
After the refresh, the page should look something like this:
These are some of the important points to note from this example:
* The text input {@link api/angular.widget widget} called `yourname` is bound to a model variable
called
`yourname`.
* The double curly braces notation binds the variable `yourname` to the
greeting text.
* You did not need to explicitly register an event listener or define an event
handler for events!
Now try typing your name into the input box, and notice the immediate change to
the displayed greeting. This demonstrates the concept of `angular`'s
{@link guide/dev_guide.templates.databinding bi-directional data binding}. Any changes to the input
field are immediately
reflected in the model (one direction), and any changes to the model are
reflected in the greeting text (the other direction).
# Anatomy Of An Angular App
This section describes the 3 parts of an angular app, and explains how they map to the
Model-View-Controller design pattern:
## Templates
Templates, which you write in HTML and CSS, serve as the View. You add elements, attributes, and
markup to HTML, which serve as instructions to the angular compiler. The angular compiler is fully
extensible, meaning that with angular you can build your own declarative language on top of HTML!
## Application Logic and Behavior
Application Logic and Behavior, which you define in JavaScript, serve as the Controller. With
angular (unlike with standard AJAX applications) you don't need to write additional listeners or
DOM manipulators, because they are built-in. This feature makes your application logic very easy to
write, test, maintain, and understand.
## Data
The Model is referenced from properties on {@link guide/dev_guide.scopes angular scope objects}.
The data in your model could be Javascript objects, arrays, or primitives, it doesn't matter. What
matters is that these are all referenced by the scope object.
Angular employs scopes to keep your data model and your UI in sync. Whenever something occurs to
change the state of the model, angular immediately reflects that change in the UI, and vice versa.
The following illustration shows the parts of an angular application and how they work together:
In addition, angular comes with a set of Services, which have the following properties:
* The services provided are very useful for building web applications.
* You can extend and add application-specific behavior to services.
* Services include Dependency-Injection, XHR, caching, URL routing, and browser abstraction.
# Where To Go Next
* For explanations and examples of the angular concepts presented on this page, see the {@link
guide/index Developer Guide}.
* For additional hands-on examples of using `angular`, including more source code that you can
copy and paste into your own pages, take a look through the `angular` {@link cookbook/ Cookbook}.
Now let's take a closer look at that code, and see what is going on behind
the scenes.
The first line of interest defines the `ng` namespace, which makes
`angular` work across all browsers (especially important for IE):
These are some of the important points to note from this example:
* The text input {@link api/angular.widget widget} called `yourname` is bound to a model variable
called
`yourname`.
* The double curly braces notation binds the variable `yourname` to the
greeting text.
* You did not need to explicitly register an event listener or define an event
handler for events!
Now try typing your name into the input box, and notice the immediate change to
the displayed greeting. This demonstrates the concept of `angular`'s
{@link guide/dev_guide.templates.databinding bi-directional data binding}. Any changes to the input
field are immediately
reflected in the model (one direction), and any changes to the model are
reflected in the greeting text (the other direction).
# Anatomy Of An Angular App
This section describes the 3 parts of an angular app, and explains how they map to the
Model-View-Controller design pattern:
## Templates
Templates, which you write in HTML and CSS, serve as the View. You add elements, attributes, and
markup to HTML, which serve as instructions to the angular compiler. The angular compiler is fully
extensible, meaning that with angular you can build your own declarative language on top of HTML!
## Application Logic and Behavior
Application Logic and Behavior, which you define in JavaScript, serve as the Controller. With
angular (unlike with standard AJAX applications) you don't need to write additional listeners or
DOM manipulators, because they are built-in. This feature makes your application logic very easy to
write, test, maintain, and understand.
## Data
The Model is referenced from properties on {@link guide/dev_guide.scopes angular scope objects}.
The data in your model could be Javascript objects, arrays, or primitives, it doesn't matter. What
matters is that these are all referenced by the scope object.
Angular employs scopes to keep your data model and your UI in sync. Whenever something occurs to
change the state of the model, angular immediately reflects that change in the UI, and vice versa.
The following illustration shows the parts of an angular application and how they work together:
In addition, angular comes with a set of Services, which have the following properties:
* The services provided are very useful for building web applications.
* You can extend and add application-specific behavior to services.
* Services include Dependency-Injection, XHR, caching, URL routing, and browser abstraction.
# Where To Go Next
* For explanations and examples of the angular concepts presented on this page, see the {@link
guide/index Developer Guide}.
* For additional hands-on examples of using `angular`, including more source code that you can
copy and paste into your own pages, take a look through the `angular` {@link cookbook/ Cookbook}.