#angularjs1.5

API call to get data

In our last post, we saw how to get data from a JSON file. In this post, we will see how to make an API call to get data. We will still be using ‘$http’, ‘$q’ & ‘promise’ and also learn error handling while making an http call.

‘The Star Wars API (SWAPI)‘ provides lots of API end-points to fetch star wars data. You can head over to the documentationsto get more details. The best part is that…

Fetch data from a json file

In this post we will see how to fetch data from a JSON file in angularjs. We will use the ‘$http’ service to get the data and make use of ‘$q’ to return a promise.

Why do we need ‘promise’ to fetch data? So that we can control the flow of our program in a sane manner. For example, if we make a ‘http’ call without using a promise, JS will not wait for the ‘http’ call to be complete. It will just…

Fetch data stored in a service

In our last post, Fetching Data in Angularjs we saw how to fetch data stored in the controller. This post will show you how to fetch data stored in a service.

This is the second post in a series of posts about fetching data in Angularjs. Here are the topics covered in this series.

Data In Controller

Fetch data stored in a service

Fetch data from a JSON file

API Call

Resolve

First things first,…