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A teaching sample from Dan Wahlin's AngularJS courses: a customer/order management SPA built with AngularJS 1.x, with a swappable backend (ASP.NET MVC/Web API/Entity Framework or Node/Express/MongoDB) and an optional BreezeJS data-access layer. It's for developers working through Wahlin's AngularJS fundamentals material, not for anyone building a new app today.
Shows clean separation of concerns in AngularJS: factories for data access, custom directives for cross-cutting concerns (an $http/jQuery XHR interceptor for a loading spinner, automatic menu highlighting, unique-value form validation). The backend is swappable behind a single config flag (useBreeze) so you can compare a raw $http/REST approach against BreezeJS against the same views. It also ships both Karma unit tests and Protractor E2E tests, which most teaching repos skip entirely.
AngularJS 1.x hit end-of-life in January 2022 and gets no security patches; building anything real on it today means inheriting a dead framework. The README states login/auth is client-side only with no server-side enforcement, which is fine for a demo but not a pattern to copy. BreezeJS, the other headline dependency, has had no meaningful maintenance in years. The last-push date is misleading — the project structure (VS2015 targeting, LocalDB, vendored bower-era scripts) shows this hasn't had a substantive update in roughly a decade, so treat it as a historical reference rather than a starting point for new work.
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