Angular From Scratch, Part Deux: A Hands-On Introduction to Angular Directives

Back in November, we covered "Angular from Scratch", and provided a high-level overview of how to get up and running with Angular, plus introductions to all of Angular's key concepts. This time, we'll go deep on one of Angular's biggest and most important concepts: Directives. Directives are where much of the custom interface magic happens in Angular, including the lion's share of what people are used to doing in JQuery.

Prerequisites for following along with the session: You'll benefit greatly from exposing yourself to some critical Angular concepts in advance via the official Angular Tutorial (http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial), which can take as little as 20 minutes, depending on how closely you inspect what they're showing you. (In truth, it's more of a 'walk-through' than a 'tutorial', but it's a good way to see how Angular code evolves, and what it gets you.) Then, you might want to read the Angular Developer Guide on Directives (http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive).
If you want to view the content from episode 1 of "Angular from Scratch", you can find the slides on SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/xmlilley/angular-from-scratch).

Watch this space: we'll hopefully be posting a repository containing some additional demo projects on directives, at some point before the event. Clone those repos using Git, and be ready to work with them.

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Christian Lilley is a UI Architect and Happy Hacker at McKinsey Digital Labs, part of McKinsey & Co. He specializes in building data-driven client-side applications, featuring lots of data visualization. He also trains other developers there in making maximum use of client-side technology, especially Angular. Christian is Co-Organizer of Data Visualization NY, one of the world's largest offline DataViz communities. He has spoken at several Conferences and Meetups that were foolish enough to let him in, including ng-conf, JSChannel Conference, NationJS, and JSChannel Meetup Bangalore. He writes about the above - and variations thereon - at christianlilley.com.

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Directions

• Opower (http://opower.com/) is located 1 block from the Courthouse Metro (Orange Line)

• Parking is available in the building (pay to park); the garage closes at 10pm

Please plan to arrive no later than 7:15pm, the building has restricted access but Opower folks will be downstairs letting people up starting at 6:15pm. If you do arrive late, you can call Nick at 425.830.3450 to be let up. Take the elevator to the 7th floor and follow signs for the meetup.

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Schedule

6:15 - 7:00 Refreshments

7:00 - 7:15 Intro & Announcements

7:15 - 8:00 Presentation by Christian Lilley

Angular From Scratch, Part Deux: A Hands-On Introduction to Angular Directives

8:00 - 8:10 Break

8:10 - 9:00 Continue presentation, Q&A Session