Tag Archives: AngularJS
VIDEO – AngularJS SPA and WebAPI SQL database secured with Azure AD – SETUP (Part 1 of 3)
Wanted to share video walk through of how to create an AngularJS front end Single Page Application (SPA) which SQL Server WebAPI secured using Azure Active Directory authentication. Project includes PowerShell PS1 automation for App Registration within Azure AD. All HTTP data traffic POST and GET is now protect with Azure AD authentication tokens to ensure only valid users can leverage the application or HTTP data endpoints. Excellent design pattern to provide rich user experience with secure data storage, all hosted on Azure with Website, SQL, and App Registration. Cheers. 
Technical topics covered include:
- AngularJS 1x single page application (SPA)
- AngularJS routing
- ADAL login / logout user experience
- Dot Net WebAPI endpoints for HTTP GET/POST
- Dot Net Entity Framework
- Dot Net web.config lifecycle DEV/PROD
- Azure website
- Azure SQL
- Azure Active Directory – App Registration
- Azure Active Directory – Bearer token
- JWT IO – Bearer token
- Postman HTTP 401 to verify AAD security
This post is part of series with three posts:
- VIDEO – AngularJS SPA and WebAPI SQL database secured with Azure AD – SETUP (Part 1 of 3)
- VIDEO – AngularJS SPA and WebAPI SQL database secured with Azure AD – SECURITY GROUP (Part 2 of 3)
- VIDEO – AngularJS SPA and WebAPI SQL database secured with Azure AD – MS FLOW EMAIL(Part 2 of 3)
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VIDEO – F12 Trick to Peek at AngularJS Scope
Wanted to share trick for peeking into AngularJS scope with F12 tools and DOM selector. After selecting any HTML DOM element you can “peek” into the “$scope” with variables available at that level. No special browser extension or plug-ins needed. If debugging AngularJS frequently check out Batarang for more advanced browser F12 tools. For a quick check be sure to memorize “angular.element($0).scope()” for typing into console. Realize that Angular (2+) has superseded AngularJS 1x. However, many AngularJS applications continue to need support. Tricks like this make that work easy.
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VIDEO – Protect WebAPI data endpoint with ADAL (Azure AD)
Wanted to record brief demo of how to protect WebAPI data endpoint with ADAL (Azure Active Directory) Authentication Library. Azure Portal enables us to register custom SPA (Single Page Application) for secure API calls to backend REST data sources. OAuth Bearer HTTP headers are applied to provide security with JWT tokens (JSON Web Token). Video shows all steps from Azure Portal registration to F12 validation of REST data calls.
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FIXED – Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
When coding JavaScript with SP-PNP-JS I came across the error below and wanted to document for others. Cheers! 
Error
Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
Root Cause
When calling HTTP GET the default Header “accept: application/json” can return data as XML.
Use F12 Developer Tools to view network traffic with HTTP headers and raw response text.
Solution
Modify JS code to initialize AngularJS with different HTTP headers.
Now SharePoint PNP api calls with Header “accept: application/json; odata=verbose” and returns data as JSON for correct parsing.
$pnp.setup({
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose"
}
});
