Glossary

Application: The DOM region started by ng-app or angular.bootstrap().

Attribute: A setting written inside an HTML opening tag.

Binding: A connection that transfers a value between state and the DOM.

Bootstrap: Start an application on a specific DOM element.

Compiler: The AngularTS runtime that discovers directives and connects them to DOM nodes. It does not produce a build artifact.

Component: A registered, reusable UI unit with inputs, behavior, and a view.

Controller: An object or function that supplies state and behavior to a DOM region or component.

Dependency injection: Requesting a registered value by token instead of constructing or finding it directly.

Directive: An HTML attribute or element that adds AngularTS behavior.

DOM: The browser’s live object tree for an HTML document.

Expression: A small JavaScript-like statement evaluated against a scope in an HTML template.

Module: A named registry for an application’s components, directives, services, configuration, and dependencies.

Reactive: Able to notify dependent bindings when a value changes.

Scope: The reactive state and lifecycle context available to a compiled DOM region.

Service: Shared behavior or data created and supplied by the injector.

Template: HTML containing AngularTS directives and expressions.

Token: The name or value used to request a dependency.

Typed view: A TypeScript function that constructs component DOM with typed tags, properties, controller access, and reactive readers.

View: The DOM output rendered by a component, directive, or router state.