building scalable applications with angular js
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Building scalable applications with AngularJSand modern applications infrastructure
Based on real life stories
Andrey [email protected]
linkedin.com/in/andreyalpert
The way it was…
Mixed client server leads to increased complexity
Presentation logic will require a lot of interactions with the server
Not a real application, just another website
The way it should be
Client Server Data
MV* JS framework, Business logic, Mobile-ready layout
Data storage. Treated like a black box.
Thin-Server, REST, Event
The stack of technologies
The stack of technologies
The stack of technologies
DRY1
Declarative2
Designers friendly5
Dependency injection4
Data binding3
The stack of technologies
UI Bootstrap1
UI Router2
… and others5
NG Grid4
UI Utils3
Seed projects are sprouting like weeds
They all suck
Organizing your app
Files Logic Code
BROS DON’T LET BROSORGANIZE FILES BY TYPE
– the angularjs bro code
Organizing by type
Organize by services, controllers, views, etc.1
One module per directory.2
Directories become bloated.4
Poor control over your DI configuration.3
Folders-by-Feature Structure
Organize by component / feature.1
Directory structure mirrors app structure.2
Can create angular modules that more accurately reflect injection dependencies.
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Easier to extract / share components.3
Folders-by-Feature Structure
All files related to a feature live together (html, css, tests).
Application-level files live directly under app/
Each section / page of the app has its own folder under app/
Things used throughout the app live under common/
Files related to the app live outside of app/
!super-dooper-project/ |- src/ | |- app/ | | |- <app logic> | |- assets/ | | |- <static files> | |- common/ | | |- components/ | | |- services/ | |- less/ | | |- main.less |- bower_components/ | |- bootstrap_components/ | |- angular-bootstrap/ | |- bootstrap/ |- karma/ |- .bowerrc |- bower.json |- build.config.js |- Gruntfile.js |- module.prefix |- module.suffix |- package.json
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Application layout
Modules should mirror URL
Submodules live near main module
Submodules listed as dependencies to main module
src/ |- app/ | |- user/ | | |- create/ | | |- search/ | | |- user.js | | |- user.ctrl.js | | |- user.less | | |- user.spec.js | | |- user.tpl.html
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https://github.com/ngbp/ngbp by Josh Miller
angular.module(‘app.user', [‘app.user.create’, ‘app.user.search’]);
angular.module(‘app.user.create’, []);
Organizing your logic
Angular talks about…
Services
are app-‐wide injected
singletons.
Controllers
are bridge between template and the rest of your application logic.
Directives
are encapsulation of some widget or DOM
element behavior.
Filters
are simple output formatting
functions.
That's great! Now you know exactly how to break up your code
UNTIL…
That's great! Now you know exactly how to break up your code
The problem with controllers
Common functionality List pages, properties pages, etc.1
Very complicated views can end up having multi-thousand line controllers.2
How can you break up logic that is going to be used in many controllers?3
Option 1 – inheritance
What is it? Traditional OOP inheritance e.g. BaseListController → sorting, paging, filtering…
Cons Hierarchy can become too deep and confusing Some controllers in our app are 5 levels deep Some logic doesn't fit neatly into a generic parent Imperfect encapsulation
Option 2 – mixins
What is it? Object whose properties are mixed into another.
Cons It becomes unclear where code comes from. Mixins could potentially conflict with or overwrite each other. Mixin is tightly coupled to the mixed-‐into object.
! angular.extend(ctrl, ListMixin);
Option 3 – object composition
What is it? Traditional object composition that takes advantage of Angular's dependency injection.
Cons Can’t inject the objects themselves (﴾until angular 2.0)﴿
! ctrl.listManager = $injector.instantiate(app.ListManager, {});
Pros Better encapsulation Easier reuse Forces more coherent API design
Organizing your code
Technical debt
Tests will be in the next release
Code entropy: “if touch that code everything will break”
Docs? My code is state of art!
TODO/FIXME statements
Let’s just copy/paste for now
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Can be found in any projectDo NOT let it grow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
QUALITY
Code style
Readability
Good names
Tabs/Spaces convention
Clear logic
Docs and comments
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!• jshint+stylish • plato • code painter • editorconfig • jscs • eslint
These are your friends
Tools
Single responsibility
File per each component1
• Gives the most control over how the injector is configured • Much easier to extract code into shared components • When testing, only have to load specific module under test
angular.module('app', ['ngRoute']);
angular.module(‘app’).controller('SomeController', SomeController); ! function SomeController() { }
angular.module(‘app’).factory('someFactory', SomeFactory); ! function SomeFactory() { }
IIFE
Wrap components in an Immediately Invoked Function Expression1
• An IIFE removes variables from the global scope. • Protects us from having collisions of variables and many global variables.
(function() { 'use strict'; angular.module(‘app’) .controller('SomeController', SomeController); ! function SomeController() { } })();
ControllerAs Controller Syntax
• Use the controllerAs syntax over the classic controller with $scope syntax. • The controllerAs syntax uses this inside controllers which gets bound to
$scope • controllerAs is syntactic sugar over $scope. You can still bind to the View
and still access $scope methods. • Use a capture variable for this when using the controllerAs syntax.
(function() { 'use strict'; angular.module(‘app’) .controller('SomeController', SomeController); ! function SomeController() { var ctrl = this; ctrl.name = {}; ctrl.sendMessage = function() { }; } })();
Resolve promises for your controllers
A controller may require data before it loads. That data may come from a promise via a custom factory or $http. Using a route resolve allows the promise to resolve before the controller logic executes, so it might take action based on that data from the promise.
(function() { 'use strict'; angular.module(‘app’).config(myConfig); ! function myConfig($routeProvider) { $routeProvider .when('/avengers', { templateUrl: 'avengers.html', controller: 'AvengersCtrl', controllerAs: 'av', resolve: { resolvedMovies: function(movieService) { return movieService.getMovies(); } } }); } })();
(function() { 'use strict'; angular.module(‘app’).controller(‘AvengersCtrl’, Avengers); ! function Avengers(resolvedMovies) { var ctrl = this; ctrl.moviesList = resolvedMovies.data; } })();
Really good for testing as you can mock injectable data
RED (Fail)
GREEN (Pass)REFACTOR
1. Write a test that fails
2. Make only enough code for it to pass
3. Improve code quality
REPEAT PROCESS
Test driven development
TDD/BDD
Better code understanding
Release faster
Motivation
Reliability
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Long (﴾hours)﴿Medium (﴾minutes)﴿
Fast (﴾seconds)﴿UIEnd 2 End
API Services Database Headless
Smoke tests unit tests
Till first failed
Remote
Local. Stubs+Mocks
Safe refactoring
Test driven development
TDD/BDD
Better code understanding
Release faster
Motivation
Reliability
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Fast (seconds)
it('should have Avengers controller', function() { //TODO }); ! it('should find 1 Avenger when filtered by name', function() { //TODO }); ! it('should have 10 Avengers', function() {} //TODO (mock data?) }); ! it('should return Avengers via XHR', function() {} //TODO ($httpBackend?) }); ! // and so on
Сode coverage
Not tested area of application
Dead code detection
Acceptance threshold 70-90%
Testing quality
Reports
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Tools
Istanbul JSCoverage Blanket
coverage > 80% is AWESOME
coverals.io codeclimate
History and stats service
TDD with…
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Cool for E2E tests
I’m your test runner. !
The best one.
These two guys are GOOD.
Laziness is the mother
of INVENTION
What tasks to automate
Source Concatenate Uglify SourceMaps
Watch LiveReload Rebuild Serve
Preprocess LESS SASS Compass
Test Karma Mocha Coverage
Assets Templates HTML processing Images optimization
Custom ChangeLog Notifications console.debug
Task runner: grunt
FILE BASED Good for file operations like copy/move/save. Configuration is over the code
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TONS OF PLUGINS Many of the tasks you need are already available as Grunt Plugins, and new plugins are published every day.
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grunt.initConfig({ pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'), uglify: { options: { banner: '/*! <%= pkg.name %>*/\n' }, build: { src: 'src/<%= pkg.name %>.js', dest: 'build/<%= pkg.name %>.min.js' } } });
http://gruntjs.com
http://gruntjs.com/plugins
The streaming build system: gulp
Fast (seconds)
EASY TO USE By preferring code over configuration, gulp keeps simple things simple and makes complex tasks manageable.
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STREAM BASED Much more faster then Grunt for file-‐content processing operations2
var gulp = require('gulp'); ! gulp.task('default', function() { // place code for your default task here });
http://gulpjs.com
http://gulpjs.com/plugins
Deployment
Continues integration
Builds history
Last successful/failed build
Multiple environments
Parallel builds
Rollback
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Fast (seconds)
Server as platform
Customizable stack and environment
Own services to use
Infrastructure
Need for DevOps
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Fast (seconds)
Amazon, Digital Ocean or Rackspace
Platform as a Service
Takes care of infrastructure for you
Updating packages and installing security patches
Technical support 24/7
Reliability and Monitoring
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3AzureHeroku Nodejitsu CloudFoundry
Docker
Your own PaaS
Open Source
Ready to use stacks
Easy Scale
Easy to migrate
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Deis Flynn Tsuru Octohost
Tools
Application + Platform = Container
SUMMARY
THANKS. QUESTIONS?