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JavaScript AngularJS Services and Dependencies Services: Factory

Posted by James Ferguson
James Ferguson
2,819 Points

Update the 'Course' factory's function to return an object with a single property, 'title', with a value of 'Intro to An

Got this far, but really don't know what to do. Any help?

app.js 
angular.module('treehouseCourse', [])
.factory('Course', function () {
  myObject: {
    title: 'Intro to Angular';
  }

  return {
    get function () {
      return myObject.title;
    }
  }
});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="treehouseCourse">
  <head>
    <title>Angular.js</title>
    <script src="js/angular.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body ng-controller="MyCourseCtrl">
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points
Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points

Hi James:

In an Angular factory you want to build up an object and then return it. You can do this just like in any normal function. So it can look like this:

angular.module('treehouseCourse', [])
  .factory('Course', function () {
    var myObject = {
      title: 'Intro to Angular'
    };
    return myObject;
  });

Hope that helps!

-Andrew

Jimmy Van der sleen
Jimmy Van der sleen
9,265 Points
Jimmy Van der sleen
Jimmy Van der sleen
9,265 Points 
angular.module('treehouseCourse', [])
    .factory('Course', function () {
        return = { 'title': 'Intro to Angular' };
})

This will also work!

Juan P. Prado
Juan P. Prado
70,483 Points
Juan P. Prado
Juan P. Prado
70,483 Points 
angular.module('treehouseCourse', [])
.factory('Course', function () {
  var course = { 'title': 'Intro to Angular' };
    return course;
  })

Thanks Andrew, for the great answer above, As I understand you return a JSON object when you initialize the factory.

Regards, Juan Pablo