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 Introduction
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 About the Author
Shailendra Chauhan - An Entrepreneur, Author, Architect,
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 About the Reviewer
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 Table of Contents
AngularJS Interview Questions & Answers .................................................... 1
Release History........................................................................................................................................1
About Dot Net Tricks................................................................................................................................2
Dot Net Tricks Training Solutions ..............................................................................................................2
Dedication ..............................................................................................................................................4
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................5
About the Author ....................................................................................................................................6
About the Reviewer .................................................................................................................................7
How to Contact Us...................................................................................................................................8

Introduction to AngularJS .............................................................................. 14

Q1. What is AngularJS? .................................................................................................................................. 14
Q2. Why use AngularJS?................................................................................................................................. 14
Q3. Why this project is called "AngularJS"? ................................................................................................... 15
Q4. What are the advantages of AngularJS?.................................................................................................. 15
Q5. How AngularJS is different from other JavaScript Framework?.............................................................. 15
Q6. What IDEs you can use for AngularJS development? .............................................................................. 15
Q7. Does AngularJS have a dependency on jQuery? ..................................................................................... 15
Q8. How to use jQuery with AngularJS? ........................................................................................................ 16
Q9. Compare the features of AngularJS and jQuery? .................................................................................... 16
Q10. What is jQLite or jQuery lite? .................................................................................................................. 16
Q11. How to access jQLite or jQuery with AngularJS? ..................................................................................... 17
Q12. Is AngularJS a library, framework, plugin or a browser extension? ........................................................ 18
Q13. What browsers do AngularJS support? ................................................................................................... 18
Q14. What are AngularJS features? ................................................................................................................. 18
Q15. How AngularJS handle the security? ....................................................................................................... 19

AngularJS Core Concepts ............................................................................... 20

Q1. What are Modules in AngularJS?............................................................................................................. 20
Q2. What components can be defined within AngularJS modules? .............................................................. 20
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Q3. What is a core module in AngularJS? ...................................................................................................... 21

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 Q4. How angular modules load the dependencies? ...................................................................................... 21
Q5. What is difference between config() and run() method in AngularJS? ................................................... 21
Q6. When dependent modules of a module are loaded? ............................................................................. 22
Q7. What is Global API? ................................................................................................................................. 22
Q8. What are Angular Prefixes $ and $$? ...................................................................................................... 23
Q9. What are Filters in AngularJS? ................................................................................................................. 23
Q10. What is an auto bootstrap process in AngularJS? ................................................................................... 23
Q11. What is a manual bootstrap process in AngularJS?................................................................................. 24
Q12. How to bootstrap your angular app for multiple modules? ................................................................... 25
Q13. What is scope in AngularJS? .................................................................................................................... 27
Q14. What is $scope and $rootScope? ............................................................................................................ 27
Q15. What is scope hierarchy? ........................................................................................................................ 29
Q16. What is the difference between $scope and scope? .............................................................................. 31
Q17. How AngularJS is compiled? .................................................................................................................... 31
Q18. How AngularJS compilation is different from other JavaScript frameworks?......................................... 32

Databinding ................................................................................................... 33
Q1. What is data binding in AngularJS? ......................................................................................................... 33
Q2. Explain Two-way and One-way data binding in AngularJS? .................................................................... 33
Q3. What is an issue with two-way data binding? ......................................................................................... 34
Q4. How AngularJS handle data binding? ...................................................................................................... 35
Q5. What are Expressions in AngularJS? ........................................................................................................ 35
Q6. How AngularJS expressions are different from the JavaScript expressions? .......................................... 35
Q7. What is the difference between $watch, $digest and $apply? ............................................................... 35
Q8. Which one is fast between $digest and $apply? ..................................................................................... 37
Q9. Which one handles exception automatically between $digest and $apply? .......................................... 37
Q10. Explain $watch(), $watchgroup() and $watchCollection() functions of scope? ...................................... 38
Q11. Explain AngularJS scope life-cycle? ......................................................................................................... 39
Q12. Explain digest life-cycle in AngularJS? ..................................................................................................... 40
Q13. When to use $destroy() function of scope? ............................................................................................ 41
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Q14. What is the difference between $evalAsync and $timeout? .................................................................. 41

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Q15. What is the difference between $watch and $observe? ........................................................................ 41

Directives and Filters ..................................................................................... 42
Q1. What are Directives in AngularJS? ........................................................................................................... 42
Q2. What is the role of ng-app, ng-init and ng-model directives?................................................................. 42
Q3. How to create custom directives in AngularJS? ...................................................................................... 42
Q4. What are different ways to invoke a directive? ...................................................................................... 43
Q5. What are restrict options in the directive? ............................................................................................. 43
Q6. Can you define multiple restrict options on a directive? ........................................................................ 43
Q7. What directives are used to show and hide HTML elements in AngularJS? ........................................... 43
Q8. Explain directives ng-if, ng-switch and ng-repeat? ................................................................................. 44
Q9. What are ng-repeat special variables? .................................................................................................... 45
Q10. What are Templates in AngularJS? .......................................................................................................... 46
Q11. What is the difference between $parse and $eval?................................................................................ 46
Q12. What is Isolate Scope and why it is required?......................................................................................... 47
Q13. What is ng-include and when to use it? .................................................................................................. 48
Q14. What angular components can be defined within AngularJS templates? .............................................. 48
Q15. How Directives are compiled? ................................................................................................................. 48
Q16. What are Compile, Pre, and Post linking in AngularJS?........................................................................... 49

MVC and Routing .......................................................................................... 51

Q1. Does AngularJS support MVC? ................................................................................................................ 51
Q2. What is the Model in AngularJS? ............................................................................................................. 51
Q3. What is ViewModel in AngularJS? ........................................................................................................... 51
Q4. What is Controller in AngularJS? ............................................................................................................. 51
Q5. What is View in AngularJS? ..................................................................................................................... 52
Q6. How to share information between controllers in AngularJS? ............................................................... 52
Q7. What is Routing in AngularJS? ................................................................................................................. 52
Q8. What is the AngularUI router and how it is different from ngRoute? .................................................... 53
Q9. What is $injector and $inject?................................................................................................................. 53
Q10. What is Dependency Injection in AngularJS? .......................................................................................... 54

Angular Forms ............................................................................................... 55

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Q1. How to apply validation in AngularJS? .................................................................................................... 55

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Q2. How to do custom form validation in AngularJS? ................................................................................... 55

 Q3. What are different Angular form properties? ......................................................................................... 56
Q4. What are different states of a form in AngularJS? .................................................................................. 57
Q5. How to do Language Internationalization in AngularJS? ......................................................................... 57
Q6. What are i18n and L10n? ........................................................................................................................ 58
Q7. What is $locale service? .......................................................................................................................... 59
Q8. What is a locale ID? ................................................................................................................................. 59
Q9. How to manage cookie in AngularJS?...................................................................................................... 59
Q10. What is the difference between $cookies and $cookieStore service? ................................................... 59
Q11. How to handle mobile browsers/devices events in AngularJS? .............................................................. 60
Q12. How to detect swipe event in mobile browsers/devices in AngularJS? .................................................. 60
Q13. How to do animation with the help of AngularJS? .................................................................................. 60
Q14. What directives support animations? ..................................................................................................... 60
Q15. How to debug AngularJS app in the browser? ........................................................................................ 60
Q16. How to securely parse and manipulate your HTML data in AngularJS?.................................................. 61

Services ......................................................................................................... 62
Q1. What is Service in AngularJS? .................................................................................................................. 62
Q2. What are different ways to create service in AngularJS? ........................................................................ 62
Q3. What is the difference between Factory, Service and Provider? ............................................................ 62
Q4. What is the difference between value and constant? ............................................................................ 65
Q5. What is $emit, $broadcast and $on in AngularJS? .................................................................................. 65
Q6. What is the difference between $http and $resource? .......................................................................... 69
Q7. What methods $http service support? ................................................................................................... 69
Q8. How to enable caching in $http service? ................................................................................................ 69
Q9. What methods $resource service object support? ................................................................................. 69
Q10. What is $q service and when to use it? ................................................................................................... 70
Q11. What is the difference between Kris Kowal's Q and $q? ........................................................................ 70
Q12. What is Restangular? ............................................................................................................................... 70
Q13. What are the advantages of Restangular over $resource and $http? .................................................... 70
Q14. What is the difference between $window and window in AngularJS? ................................................... 71
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Q15. What is the difference between $document and window.document in AngularJS?.............................. 71

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Q16. What is the difference between $timeout and window.setTimeout in AngularJS? ............................... 72
 Q17. What is the difference between $interval and window. setInterval in AngularJS? ................................ 72

References..................................................................................................... 73

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