This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.
Everyone who's reading this, please leave your opinion/ideas/proposals as a comment for a better world!
Most of you guys read Josh' proposals to make components more reusable, I think. Now, reading through this proposals definitely gives a feeling that this is the right way. Anyways, If you haven't read it yet, you should.
So Josh shows us, how angular apps can be structured in a better and more reusable way. Reusability is a very important thing when it comes to software development. Actually the whole angularjs library follows a philosophy of reusability. Which is why you able to make things like:
(written by @pawel)
We've got a number of bug reports opened for the $dialog service and while some of them can be fixed by (relatively) simple changes to the existing code-base some other are difficult to solve due to the way current code is structured. Additionally the existing API would benefit from some some simplifications.
This docs aims to list existing issues and propose a new API plus some implementations details that would address existing issues.
As a remainder, docs for the current service are located here: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/src/dialog/README.md
The current version of the $http service has a hard-coded way of serializing request parameters. This one-and-only-one way of doing things causes practical problems to people using backends that have different serialziation schemas (mostly Rails and PHP).
More specifically, given this $http call:
$http.get('http://google.com', {params: {foo: [1 ,2], bar: 'sth;else'}});