Introduction To AngularJS – Day Seventeen

In this 17th day of AngularJS article series, we are going to be learning the next key players/concept of AngularJS, understanding the concept of Built in Services of AngularJS. Before moving to key players/concepts of AngularJS, please read my previous articles:

1. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 1
2. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 2
3. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 3
4. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 4
5. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 5
6. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 6
7. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 7
8. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 8
9. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 9
10. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 10
11. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 11
12. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 12
13. Introduction to AngularJS – Day 13
14. Introduction To AngularJS – Day 14
15. Introduction To AngularJS – Day 15
16. Introduction To AngularJS – Day 16

AngularJS provides many built in services. For example:

The $http is used to make an Ajax call to get the server data, the $route is used to define the routing information, and so on. The built-in services are always prefixed with ‘$’ symbol.

$location Service

The name defines the functionality of $location service. It does the same function as ‘window.location’. It parses the URL browser address bar and makes used of this in your application. It contains the set and get property. Mostly this ‘$location’ service is used in AngularJS routing to get current path and do action on that path like ‘$routeProvider’. In this ‘$routeProvider’, we used to match the current path and call particular view and controller. It contains URL object, set of the following methods: