About the Cover Illustration

The figure on the cover of AngularJS in Action is captioned “Man from Vukovar, Croatia.” The illustration is taken from a reproduction of an album of traditional Croatian costumes from the mid-nineteenth century by Nikola Arsenovic, published by the Ethnographic Museum in Split, Croatia, in 2003. The illustrations were obtained from a helpful librarian at the museum, itself situated in the Roman core of the medieval center of the town: the ruins of Emperor Diocletian’s retirement palace from around AD 304. The book includes finely colored illustrations of figures from different regions of Croatia, accompanied by descriptions of the costumes and of everyday life.

Vukovar is a mid-sized town in eastern Croatia. It has the country’s largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka River with the Danube. Vukovar has always been a thriving community due to its fortunate location, and it has served as a gateway to Austria and the west for centuries. The figure on the cover is dressed in his Sunday finery—blue woolen pants, a black woolen vest over a while linen shirt, topped by a voluminous black cloak—all richly adorned with the intricate and colorful embroidery that is typical for this region of Croatia.