Learn angular offline

September 15, 2015 2:02 PM

Looking for resources to learn Angular.js offline?

I'm going to be away from work for a couple of weeks and would like to take the time to get an introduction to Angular.js. A wrinkle: I may have spotty connectivity, so I'd like to find resources I can download and use offline. Any suggestions?

I'm new to Angular but not new to coding, although Javascript isn't my strongest language at the moment.

posted by echo target to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Considering that what is currently angular (1.x) is going to be pretty much abandoned for what will be angular(2.x) in a few months, I'm not sure that this is the best time to try and learn the current 1.x version of Angular, unless you have a pressing need to do so. If you aren't that strong on Javascript and want to learn a framework, I might point you toward Backbone instead.
posted by rockindata at 3:02 PM on September 15, 2015

Response by poster: I could be convinced to go with a different framework, but I'm not sure about Backbone - from what I've read it's much more build-and-configure-it-yourself. I don't want to get halfway into a project and then find out there's a dependency on some package I didn't grab ahead of time, and not be able to work again until I get connected. I'm looking for an all-in-one set, and I'd like something with more focus on productivity than customization.

Do I have the wrong idea about Angular? Is there no value to learning Angular 1.x ahead of the switch to 2.0? Would I be better off going to, say, Ember or something?
posted by echo target at 5:42 PM on September 15, 2015

Angular 1.x isn't going anywhere soon. They plan to continue to support it and thousands of companies are using the framework and the upgrade path to 2.0 is going to be difficult enough that you won't see the world change overnight.

Also, while 2.0 is certainly looking different in many ways, a lot of the core ideas are moving forward. If you follow Papa's style guide when you work in 1.x it will end up looking quite similar to 2.0.

That document is one that would be good to have an offline copy.

I'm not entirely sure about what other materials you should drag down. You can get the official documentation. Then I'd go and find someone who seems to have a decent text format tutorial and pull down a local copy. Hopefully some others will have some decent suggestions.
posted by ChrisManley at 6:10 PM on September 15, 2015

Pull down all the source code and all the documentation from https://github.com/angular/angular.js on GitHub.

To build it, you'll need Grunt.
posted by artlung at 3:51 PM on September 16, 2015

If you're on OSX, I started using Dash when my work lost its internet connection for a few days. If it doesn't have Angular built in, you can search the Preferences and see if it's an optional include, or add a link to download stuff yourself. There might be a Windows/other version too.
posted by conkystconk at 1:39 AM on September 20, 2015