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What's in these files?

  models/
    CartModel.js
    ProductModel.js
    SearchResultsModel.js
    UserModel.js

I have a lot of controllers, directives, filters and services which sit fine in their own files/modules but I don't understand what I would put in a model file.

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The Model files are storing state, essentially. In this case they are following a pattern from Robotlegs (as3). I wrote it up here http://joelhooks.com/2011/03/12/an-introduction-to-robotlegs...

These are then injected as "services" in your controllers.

Model files in angularJS are often basic wrappers around either $ressource or $http. From that you can add default values, collection-like functions, etc.

Do you happen to have a link to an example for those of us just getting started in Angular?

I think typically people start them out in 'services.js' since effectively models in angular are constructors that are created, and then injected whenever you need a certain type (so you have a service that returns the constructor function).

A good example of this is how the tutorial treats the restful 'Phone' resource, creating a service that injects the resource where necessary. I've started calling them 'models' rather than 'services' internally as well, so it's interesting to me that others are too.

http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_11

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