Good breakdown of some of the useful built-in directives as well as an easy-to-understand guide to creating a directive. Top commenter is definitely right that

Good breakdown of some of the useful built-in directives as well as an easy-to-understand guide to creating a directive. Top commenter is definitely right that Angular's own docs create a cottage industry for bloggers and others willing to bang their heads against stuff until they figure it out. Just started an Angular directive that allows for reusable Flot charts: https://github.com/ErikAugust/flang https://github.com/ErikAugust/flang I'll be adding the barChart directive as well as adding dynamic option setting in the next day or two.