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This potentially helps lead the way towards a more performant fly-weight implementation, as discussed earlier in the year. Using a constructor means we can put things in the prototype chain, and essentially treat $q as a Promise class, and reuse methods as appropriate. Short of that, I feel this style is slightly more convenient and streamlined, compared with the older API. Closes #8311 Closes #6427 (I know it's not really the solution asked for in #6427, sorry!)
AngularJS 
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding. To help you structure your application better and make it easy to test, AngularJS teaches the browser how to do dependency injection and inversion of control. Oh yeah and it also helps with server-side communication, taming async callbacks with promises and deferreds; and makes client-side navigation and deeplinking with hashbang urls or HTML5 pushState a piece of cake. The best of all: it makes development fun!
- Web site: http://angularjs.org
- Tutorial: http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial
- API Docs: http://docs.angularjs.org/api
- Developer Guide: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide
- Contribution guidelines: http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/contribute
- Dashboard: http://dashboard.angularjs.org
Building AngularJS
Once you have your environment setup just run:
grunt package
Running Tests
To execute all unit tests, use:
grunt test:unit
To execute end-to-end (e2e) tests, use:
grunt package
grunt test:e2e
To learn more about the grunt tasks, run grunt --help and also read our
contribution guidelines.