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Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by jlooper » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:08 PM UTC

haxa wrote: post #4

Anyone has the experience working with NativeScript and Angular 2? How's it compared with React Native? And is there any chance this will evolve to a viable alternative to developing native apps using web technology?

Jen from Telerik DevRel here...we are working with Google to ensure that Angular 2 works great for your NativeScript apps. Please check our blogs at nativescript.org for forthcoming info on performance comparisons and how-tos. I'd encourage you to visit our getting started guide on the above web site to see how you like NativeScript!

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by aikah » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:09 PM UTC

haxa wrote: post #4

Anyone has the experience working with NativeScript and Angular 2? How's it compared with React Native? And is there any chance this will evolve to a viable alternative to developing native apps using web technology?

How is NativeScript related to AngularJS ? is it the same team ?

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by aikah » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

jlooper wrote: post #11

haxa wrote: post #4

Anyone has the experience working with NativeScript and Angular 2? How's it compared with React Native? And is there any chance this will evolve to a viable alternative to developing native apps using web technology?

Jen from Telerik DevRel here...we are working with Google to ensure that Angular 2 works great for your NativeScript apps. Please check our blogs at nativescript.org for forthcoming info on performance comparisons and how-tos. I'd encourage you to visit our getting started guide on the above web site to see how you like NativeScript!

> Angular 2 works great for your NativeScript app

How is it going to work exactly ?

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by cdnsteve » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

How many Angular folks are sticking with native ES6 and babel vs TypeScript? Angular is clearly directing folks to TypeScript. I don't want to have to use TypeScript on front-end and ES6 + Babel in Node. Trying to pick one.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by _alexander_ » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:13 PM UTC

Looks promising... But personally I dislike TS., and I know that it not required for Angular 2..., Now I prefer ES6 + babel, maybe in future I'll change my attitude to TS.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by javajoshw » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:14 PM UTC

cdnsteve wrote: post #14

How many Angular folks are sticking with native ES6 and babel vs TypeScript? Angular is clearly directing folks to TypeScript. I don't want to have to use TypeScript on front-end and ES6 + Babel in Node. Trying to pick one.

As I understand it they have most of their docs written for TypeScript but they plan to fully support ES6 and have the docs to show how to use ES6 too. I would prefer ES6, however it appears that TypeScript is a bit less verbose to write.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by davedx » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

cdnsteve wrote: post #14

How many Angular folks are sticking with native ES6 and babel vs TypeScript? Angular is clearly directing folks to TypeScript. I don't want to have to use TypeScript on front-end and ES6 + Babel in Node. Trying to pick one.

I'm finding it very difficult due to the sheer number of choices. Angular 2 supports ES5, ES6, TypeScript, and Dart. It's hard enough evaluating what our upgrade path will be from Angular 1.x, let alone which language we should end up using.

I kind of have a feeling that by the time we actually need (and have the resources) to upgrade or even start mixing in Angular 2 on our project, native browser support for ES6 will be close enough to complete that we won't need a transpilation step. That might be a nice time to do the migration.

Looking forward to hearing what other devs end up using.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by davedx » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:18 PM UTC

interdrift wrote: post #8

I'm a C# developer. I have been patiently waiting for angular 2.0 with the hopes of switching my stack to TS.Node + Angular and I'm really excited about trying this!

I'm very impressed with the power Visual Studio Code offers for developing JS/TS projects. Do you do all of your development in the .NET flavour of Visual Studio?

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by pil4rin » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:20 PM UTC

aikah wrote: post #12

haxa wrote: post #4

Anyone has the experience working with NativeScript and Angular 2? How's it compared with React Native? And is there any chance this will evolve to a viable alternative to developing native apps using web technology?

How is NativeScript related to AngularJS ? is it the same team ?

No, NativeScript is a Telerik product. Angular is a Google/ Open Source project. I'm not sure how they are related, I haven't seen anyone use the two in conjunction.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by moogly » Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 8:23 PM UTC

Trying to find info on their packaging story. Last I heard the official tooling seemed to be moving off systemjs+jspm in favour of WebPack, but I don't see any clear info on this; does anyone know?

We've started experimenting with systemjs and really like it (though support is a bit limited right now, plus it not really liking PhantomJS/karma), and we want to modernize our Angular 1.x app packaging/loading/bundling, but don't really want to do needless work if we have to move to another solution for Angular 2.x.