ASP.NET MVC Validation form with AngularJS

Question

I'm with a project in MVC 4 and AngularJS (+ twitter bootstrap). I usually use in my MVC projects "jQuery.Validate", "DataAnnotations" and "Razor". Then I enable these keys in my web.config to validate properties of model on the client:

<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />

For example if I have in my model this:

[Required]
[Display(Name = "Your name")]
public string Name { get; set; }

With this Cshtml:

@Html.LabelFor(model => model.Name)
@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Name)

The html result would:

<label for="Name">Your name</label>
<input data-val="true" data-val-required="The field Your name is required." id="Name" name="Name" type="text" value="" />
<span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Name" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>

But now when I use AngularJS, I want to render maybe like this:

<label for="Name">Your name</label>
<input type="text" ng-model="Name" id="Name" name="Name" required />
<div ng-show="form.Name.$invalid">
   <span ng-show="form.Name.$error.required">The field Your name is required</span>
</div>

I do not know if there are any helper or "Data Annotation" to resolve this. I understand that AngularJS has many more features like:

<div ng-show="form.uEmail.$dirty && form.uEmail.$invalid">Invalid:
    <span ng-show="form.uEmail.$error.required">Tell us your email.</span>
    <span ng-show="form.uEmail.$error.email">This is not a valid email.</span>
</div>

Well, specifically. I need some helper or "Data Annotation" to resolve the attributes (Data Annotation) for display on the client with AngularJS.

If it still does not exist, perhaps it is time to do, like RazorForAngularJS

Edit

I think perhaps the best way to work with ASP.NET MVC and AngularJS is do it (front-end) by hand (writing all the HTML by hand)

Answer 1

As someone that's authored an ASP.Net/Angular website, I can tell you that you're going to be way better off stepping away from using Razor to render your HTML where you can.

In my projects I've set up one razor view to render my main page (I'm using a single page app written in Angular), then I have a folder of straight .html files that I use as my templates for Angular.

The rest is done in ASP.Net Web API calls in my case, but you can also use MVC action with JSON results.

As soon as I switched to this architecture, things went a lot more smoothly for me, development wise.