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Hey,
This is Jay again and this is part 2 of our Coin Search application building series and I want to take a few moments today to talk about the foundation for the application. In this particular case we are using Angular and it's a JavaScript framework. And, like many other Frameworks it provides you with some tools to scaffold out an entire base for the application so you don't have to write a bunch of code by hand. Their quick start docs are pretty good. Basically you run a few commands in a terminal and what you end up with is an application that looks a little bit like this to begin with.
So what does it build? All of this stuff gets built out for you. There's an index document that is the main part of your application that people would come into. It's actually this page here. I've only edited a few things. I've change the readme file to create a working name for the application again change the name here. Then added the use of the title service that's available to us so that we can change the page title. And, I'm using it here too. But, we can change the page title up here.
It's kind of a trivial thing but it's something that you want to be able to do. You want to control that from page to page and Angular provides a service that allows you to do that. So in short once the foundation for an application like this is been built and you fire up the there's a there's a testing server that you fire up and this is what it looks like it gives you this page here.
Now, once you've made whatever edits you want to make generally what happens is as you check them into a code versioning system which is what this looks like. So if we do it this says that I've made one I made one change to it.
Then from there you want to take and get it out into a repository of some kind. This acts not only as a backup for the work that you've done previously... Obviously you have a copy of it on your local machine but this also provides you with the ability to share the project with other people.
So if you're a developer or if there's any developers out there interested in contributing to the project this is the way we do it.
So that's about it for today tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit about some CSS frameworks that I want to implement. I do a lot of work with bootstrap on a lot of other projects. I'm not going to use this for this particular application what I'm going to use instead is foundation which is another CSS framework that gives you the look and feel of the application.
So that's about it! And, I found this great article by Justin Davis that talks about integrating angular angular with foundation so this should be a good combination.
So that's it looking forward to talking to you tomorrow!
Thanks!
