Does Angular need a web server to run? So would Angular work if I give browser a url of a local file?

Question

By this I mean I have read that Angular allows mock up data to be used so that RESTFul apis need not be wired up. I can think of a use case where a UX designer need only look a

Answer 1

So, the way I've done this is to create a temp service and just load that instead of from a url/file.

Example:

//tempUser.js
angular.module("app").constant("tempUser", {
    firstname : "Joe",
    lastname : "Smith"
});

//userService.js
angular.module("app").factory("userService", function ($q, tempUser) {
    return {
        load : load
    };

    function load(id) {
        //TODO: finish impl
        return $q.when(tempUser);
    }
});

This way the controller can still work as if you were loading from a web service.

angular.module("app").controller("UserDetailCtrl", function (userService) {
    userService.load().then(function (user) {
        $scope.user = user;
    });
});