Instruction: Detail the configuration and usage of the $resource service for interacting with RESTful APIs.
Context: This question assesses the candidate's experience with AngularJS's $resource service for CRUD operations in a RESTful context.
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$resource is essentially a factory that creates a resource object, letting us interact with RESTful server-side data sources. The beauty of $resource is in its simplicity and power. It abstracts the complexity of direct HTTP calls into specific methods corresponding to RESTful operations, such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
To configure and use $resource, you first need to include the ngResource module in your application. This can be done by injecting the ngResource module into your application module as a dependency. Here's a basic example:...