@workInProgress @ngdoc overview @name Getting Started @description # Hello World The easiest way to get started with angular is to create a basic Hello World app. # Step 1 In your favorite text editor, create a file called helloworld.html. Copy and paste the following contents into the file: Hello {{'World'}}! # Step 2 Navigate to the file helloworld.html in your browser. The page should look like the screenshot below: That's it! Now take another look at helloworld.html. Here's what's going on behind the scenes:
Defines the namespace `ng`, which represents the URL `http://angularjs.org`. You must define the `ng` namespace in your application so the browser understands angular directives like `ng:autobind`.
Sets the `src` attribute of the script tag to `http://code.angularjs.org/angular-?.?.?.min.js` to bootstrap to the angular environment. Uses the `ng:autobind` attribute to compile and manage the whole HTML document. The compilation happens in the page's onLoad handler. 
Hello {{'World'}}!
This is the template that describes how this element is displayed in the UI. Uses the double curly brace markup (`{{}}`) to bind an expression to the greeting text. In this case the expression is the string literal 'World'. # Step 3 For a more advanced Hello World example that demonstrates angular's two-way data binding, edit helloworld.html and replace the contents of the `` with: Your name:
Hello {{yourname}}! These are the changes to note: * The text input widget is bound to the text stored by the name variable. * The name variable is implicit in the root scope. * You did not need to explicitly register an event listener or define an event handler for events. Now refresh the `helloworld.html` page in your browser. Your screen should now look like this: Type your name into the input box and notice the immediate change to the displayed greeting. This example demonstrates the concept of angular's two-way data binding; any changes to the input field are immediately reflected in the greeting text. # Anatomy of an angular app These are the 3 parts of an angular app and how they map to the Model-View-Controller design pattern: # Template Templates, which you write in HTML and CSS, are the View. You add elements, attributes, and markup to HTML, which are instructions to the angular compiler. These instructions are fully extensible, meaning that you can build your own declarative language with angular. # Application Logic and Behavior Application Logic and Behavior, which you define in JavaScript, are the Controllers. Unlike normal AJAX applications, you don't need to write additional listeners or DOM manipulators in angular because they are built-in. This makes your application logic very easy to write, test, maintain, and understand. # Scope Scope, which is a JavaScript object that has the ability to watch for changes and get notified of them, is the Model. You typically don't need to write much, if any, additional JavaScript to define your model. Additionally, angular comes with a set of Services, which have the following properties: * Useful for building web applications. * You can extend the services and add application-specific behavior to them. * Examples include Dependency-Injection, XHR, caching, URL routing, and browser abstraction. The following illustrates each part of an angular application and how they work together: # Where to go next For more hands-on examples of using angular, including more source code that you can copy and paste into your own page, take a look through {@link cookbook}. For explanations of the concepts described in this example, see {@link guide.bootstrap bootstrap}, {@link guide.template template}, {@link angular.widget.HTML input}, {@link angula.scope scope}, {@link angular.markup markup}, and {@link guide.data-binding data binding}. To read about the HTML compiler and the compilation process, see {@link guide.compiler compiler}. For more angular concepts, see the {@link guide Developer Guide}.