What is the best way to use AngularJS to consume REST web services?

[Sam]

There are a few options for consuming REST web services with AngularJS. A google search turned out $resource, $http and restangular. I am very new to Angularjs. Can someone more experienced which is the developer-friendly way to consume web services for a newbie?

Thank you very much.

[Alec Taylor]

Depends what you want to do. You'll likely want to use $http; and if
the REST API is your own, you might want to look into metawidget for
form generation.

Remember to modularise, e.g.: to services.js and controllers.js

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[Joshua Wright]

Read about $resource:  http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2433-Using-RESTful-Controllers-In-An-AngularJS-Resource.htm

It allows you to abstract your RESTful resources up a level from the more bare-metal $http

[Michael Hopper]

I just made the switch from $http to Restangular and really recommend it. Restangular has a ton of useful features.

I recommend putting the HTTP requests in service methods and have those methods return the promises to the controllers.

Here is an example:

// Controller code

$scope.getCustomers = function() {

  return customerService.getCustomers().then(function(customers) {

    $scope.model.customers = customers;

  }, function(response) {

    $log.error('response = ' + JSON.stringify(response));

  });

};

// Customer Service code

var customersUrl = Restangular.all('/customers/');

this.getCustomers = function() {

  return customersUrl.getList();

};

[calvin crane]

Here is a fully working example of using http with the google API. - https://github.com/landed1/landed1.github.io

[Joe Gaudet]

Restangular has a very nice wrapper around http  https://github.com/mgonto/restangular