We have recently created example Angular.js web app with the minimal generic functionality. Small enough to be called framework but with built-in test cases, controllers and several views with user forms. The goal is to have a reusable foundation for Angular projects. This blog post is about how we designed Angular Starter structure. Part two of this posts is about consuming APIs with AngularJS.

Why Angular Starter

There are many tutorials on how to start application development with Angular.js. As well as a good few projects on GitHub with the Angular app skeletons. Like the angular-seed project created by Angular.js development team itself.

What we needed was a minimal project, with pre-built basic functionality and structure of communication with web services and APIs. And of course automated test cases.

We wanted test cases to get some special attention as we are big fans of TDD (test-driven development). Having the majority of test cases created even before any app functionality is coded is a good help to keep those bugs away.

I haven’t found the open source project which completely match my requirements and Angular Starter was born. It’s an open source project, hosted on GitHub and I welcome all suggestions and comments.

What exactly is its structure and how it can help to start your Angular apps?

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