Every Angular example in the book is editable and run within a sandboxed JavaScript environment, just like in Plunker or jsFiddle, but with the appearance of a book. Since the examples execute on every change, you'll never need to worry if the code actually works.
Not only are Angular and associated libraries live in the pages of the book, all server interactions are live as well, backed by a working RESTful API server, just like on a real project.
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I got the idea for ScriptyBooks several years ago, while reading an e-book about JavaScript programming on my MacBook Air. Wanting to run one of the examples, I downloaded an archive from the publisher's web site, puzzled over where to expand it, navigated through a hierarchy of directories, and finally opened the correct file in an editor. Then I realized I had to create an HTML document to hold the fragment. Even then it didn't run, and I went on a hunt for dependencies.
Why, if I was reading a book about a front-end technology on a computer, should I have to go through so much pain just to run the examples? A short time later I discovered the first edition of Marijn Haverbeke's book Eloquent JavaScript, and realized I could use his CodeMirror project to realize my own vision: An e-book that looked great, with beautiful type and a clean layout; but with editable, runnable code examples, right there in the text.
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“Very nice way to "read" about code — extremely helpful to be able to live-tinker with the code and see what happens when you do.”
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