AngularJS: Creating Objects that map to REST Resources (ORM-Style)

Question

I\'m pretty new to AngularJS, but I\'m pretty unclear on how to tie it up to my Server\'s REST Api backend.

For example, say I have an \"image\" resource that I get by G

Answer 1

After lots of research, here is a comprehensive list of all the solutions available:

• Restmod

• Modelizer

• ModelCore

• angular-watch-resource

• angular-restful

• ngResource

• angularjs-rails-resource

• angular-nested-resource

• Aar.js

• Angular Activerecord

• Angular-Data

• ngActiveResource

• restangular

• BreezeJS

• ng-backbone

but honestly I wasn't very happy, so I decided to add to the list my own solution haha. Check it out here: $modelFactory.

Your end-result code ends up looking something like:

var module = angular.module('services.zoo', ['modelFactory']);

module.factory('AnimalModel', function($modelFactory){
  return $modelFactory('api/zoo');
});

return module;

I believe this is a better solution over the rest because mainly the model definition closely resembles Angular's ngResource, adding just low-level features one needs that it lacks. Its super lightweight (1.45k gzip/min) and has only a few small dependencies ( no lodash, jquery, etc ).