July 27, 2018 — Have you seen tutorials online with out of date information on how to start building a headless WordPress app using Angular JS (Angular 1.x)? This talk will cover how to connect to the WordPress REST API using Angular JS. We’ll cover the WordPress setup using Advanced Custom Fields and Custom Post Types, as well as setting up the Angular routes to connect to the REST API to get and display the data.

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April 15, 2017 — Single page apps are all the rage these days, but did you know you can use WordPress to help you build one!? This presentation will go over the basics of single page app frameworks (React/Angular) and how to use them with WordPress.

November 18, 2016 — Aplicación sencilla con AngularJS y Rest API – Marcelo Tena

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June 5, 2016 — Damian will be talking about the way WordPress is shaping towards stronger/more frequent use as a fully fledged CMS platform with a strong focus on frontend content delivery using JavaScript technologies.

Some of the key areas they’d like to highlight during their talk are the RESTful API integrations with WordPress, whenever it’s exposing WordPress functionality through use of WordPress REST API 2.0 Plugin, or integration with external services and how this can be done with technologies such as AngularJS.

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April 21, 2016 — If JavaScript and API driven interface are the future of the web, why should your plugin or theme admin interfaces be any different? With a highly-extensible tool for creating REST APIs included in WordPress, using JavaScript MVC frameworks to create great interfaces for your plugins, themes, apps and services is easier than ever.

In this hands-on talk Josh and Roy will share their experience creating an Angular App, powered by custom REST API endpoints for their A/B testing plugin Ingot. They will address API creation, using Angular, and ensuring that the final product is extensible and accessible as a WordPress admin interface should be.

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April 20, 2016 — AngularJS is a wonderful tool, extending the conventions of HTML5 that we all know and love, for building dynamic web applications. This beginner talk will provide you with a basic understanding of Angular templates, controllers, directives and factories. It will prepare you to get started with Angular and use it to build awesome interfaces connected to a RESTful API, such as the WordPress REST API.

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October 5, 2015 — I’ll give an introduction to the WordPress REST API and Angular.js in the form of a high level overview (why they exist, what problems they solve, the future of the REST API), and proceed to walk through building theme components with the REST API and Angular.js. I’ll discuss the concerns leading a theme author to chose to build asynchronous components, such as caching issues. Live examples of REST API/Angular.js components will be discussed, with examples of how I built them. Time permitting I’ll conclude by building a REST API/Angular.js theme component live, though will likely do it Emeril Lagasse style (here’s a directive I baked earlier!) due to time constraints.

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June 22, 2015 — Ben and Joseph gives you a step by step walkthrough of consuming data from a WordPress back end using AngularJS and show you how they have used this concept in production to power multiple front end websites with one WordPress installation.

January 4, 2015 — The presentation goes over the basics of Angular JS, what makes it special, an introduction on how to start programming with Angular and tools / resources you can use, some examples and tutorials of how angular can help improve your theme / plugin development and an overview of the limitations of an Angular App and what potential SEO impacts it may have

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