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RESTful API calling With Angular $resource

Recently we started using AngularJS for our project and we are using $http for calling Restful API. But, we noticed that every time we have to define a separate function for each $http method, which resulted in larger code base and repetitive task of defining functions. To avoid this situation we explored around possible solutions and found out about $resource service. It helps a lot in managing our code base and also in making our AJAX calls cleaner. Below you can see how to use $resource to make smarter and cleaner RESTful api calls. WHAT IS $resource ? Angular provides a very useful... Read More