A set of Angular.js modules for building Angular applications on the Salesforce Force.com platform.
ngForce is an Angular.js integration framework for the Salesforce Force.com platform. It provides a set of modules that facilitate building Angular applications on Salesforce by wrapping Visualforce Remoting and REST APIs into Angular services. It solves the problem of complex, callback-heavy integration by offering promise-based methods for data operations.
Salesforce developers and Angular.js developers building custom applications on the Force.com platform who need seamless integration between Angular frontends and Salesforce data.
Developers choose ngForce because it simplifies Salesforce integration with Angular.js, offering modular services, promise-based workflows, and performance optimizations like template caching, reducing development time and complexity.
Force.com && Angular.js integration framework.
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Leverages Angular's $q service for clean, chainable asynchronous operations, reducing callback hell as shown in multi-query examples with vfr.query().
Provides Angular-ized wrappers for any Visualforce remoting method, with pre-wired convenience methods for CRUD, bulk operations, and fieldset manipulation via the vfr service.
Pre-fetches and caches Visualforce templates by stripping unnecessary JavaScript includes, noticeably improving load times as described in the ngForce-sfTemplate service.
Allows advanced developers to use independent modules from the jsSrc directory, enabling customization and selective adoption without the full library.
Requires Lo-Dash.js, safeApply.js, and Restangular.js for full functionality, increasing setup complexity and potential for version conflicts as noted in the architectural overview.
Some services, like sfrAnalytics.js, have minimal documentation, with the README admitting gaps and inviting community contributions to fill them.
Methods like QueryAll() can easily pull down thousands of records, risking browser freezes and API call exhaustion without careful use, as explicitly warned in the README.
Built specifically for Angular.js (Angular 1.x), which is deprecated, limiting future compatibility and support for projects moving to modern frameworks.