In this case the situation was the end of life of Openshift v2, the platform I used to host (for free) the WordPress blog. As I was not yet accepted in the program of Openshift v3 I decided to try an alternative. So I had access to a static hosting and I moved all the content from Wordpress to Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator and as I described in a previous post there is nothing bad with that if you use the correct tools.
We wanted to create a kind of live update of the Firebase backend while the users were using the app avoiding to put Save button actions in order to save. The idea is to keep the backend updated while the user is creating or updating any element, these are ToDo items and category elements, in our application. So we needed to implement a system with the help of the library Angularfire and the $watch AngularJs function to make it happen.
Ionic provide you a framework to quickly implement with your web development skills a nice native application. Although, not everything is provided in the framework and if you want to get native features working with your application you will need to add some Cordova plugins to your project.
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As we can create components like controllers, factories and services with code that can be reused in many parts of an AngularJs application, you could do the same by creating directives as reusable parts of code that applies to the HTML elements.
In any application sometimes you need to share some code or common functionalities among the components of the application. One way to do it is using a services pattern. In AngularJs Applications there are three ways to create them: services and factories.
