@ngdoc overview
@name Developer Guide: Bootstrap
@description

# Overview

This page explains the Angular initialization process and how you can manually initialize Angular
if necessary.

## Angular `<script>` Tag

This example shows the recommended path for integrating Angular with what we call automatic
initialization.


<pre>
<!doctype html>
<html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org" ng-app>
  <body>
    ...
    <script src="angular.js">
  </body>
</html>
</pre>

  * Place the `script` tag at the bottom of the page. Placing script tags at the end of the page
    improves app load time because the HTML loading is not blocked by loading of the `angular.js`
    script. You can get the latest bits from {@link http://code.angularjs.org}. Please don't link
    your production code to this URL, as it will expose a security hole on your site. For
    experimental development linking to our site is fine.
    * Choose: `angular-[version].js` for a human-readable file, suitable for development and
      debugging.
    * Choose: `angular-[version].min.js` for a compressed and obfuscated file, suitable for use in
      production.
  * Place `ng-app` to the root of your application, typically on the `<html>` tag if you want
    angular to auto-bootstrap your application.

        <html ng-app>

  * If IE7 support is required add `id="ng-app"`

        <html ng-app id="ng-app">

  * If you choose to use the old style directive syntax `ng:` then include xml-namespace in `html`
    to make IE happy. (This is here for historical reasons, and we no longer recommend use of
    `ng:`.)

        <html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org">



## Automatic Initialization

Angular initializes automatically upon `DOMContentLoaded` event, at which point Angular looks for
the {@link api/ng.directive:ngApp `ng-app`} directive which
designates your application root. If the {@link
api/ng.directive:ngApp `ng-app`} directive is found then Angular
will:

  * load the {@link guide/module module} associated with the directive.
  * create the application {@link api/AUTO.$injector injector}
  * compile the DOM treating the {@link api/ng.directive:ngApp
    `ng-app`} directive as the root of the compilation. This allows you to tell it to treat only a
    portion of the DOM as an Angular application.


<pre>
<!doctype html>
<html ng-app="optionalModuleName">
  <body>
    I can add: {{ 1+2 }}.
    <script src="angular.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
</pre>



## Manual Initialization


If you need to have more control over the initialization process, you can use a manual
bootstrapping method instead. Examples of when you'd need to do this include using script loaders
or the need to perform an operation before Angular compiles a page.

Here is an example of manually initializing Angular:

<pre>
<!doctype html>
<html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org">
  <body>
    Hello {{'World'}}!
    <script src="http://code.angularjs.org/angular.js"></script>
    <script>
       angular.element(document).ready(function() {
         angular.bootstrap(document, ['optionalModuleName']);
       });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>
</pre>

Note that we have provided the name of our application module to be loaded into the injector as the second
parameter of the {@link api/angular.bootstrap} function. This example is equivalent to using the
{@link api/ng.directive:ngApp ng-app} directive, with `ng-app="optionalModuleName"`, as in the automatic
initialization example above.

This is the sequence that your code should follow:

  1. After the page and all of the code is loaded, find the root element of your AngularJS
  application, which is typically the root of the document.

  2. Call {@link api/angular.bootstrap} to {@link compiler compile} the element into an
  executable, bi-directionally bound application.
