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Angular 2 Beta released

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Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by ihsw »

iLoch wrote: post #24
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.

TypeScript is fully compatible with ES6 as far as I know, so if you want to start using it either on the client side or on the server side, you can start doing that whenever you like (provided you don't mind changing file extensions, etc.)

That's a negative, it is the reverse -- MS has always maintained that TS will be a superset of ES and that they are completely open to porting TS features over to ES.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by joshuacc »

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.

We've been using TypeScript with Angular 1 projects for almost a year now and have really been enjoying it. Having it integrated directly into the framework is a great improvement for my team, at least.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by ihsw »

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.

TypeScript, all the way. I work with it professionally and I couldn't be happier, especially in comparison to CoffeeScript.

I used to love CoffeeScript but, after giving ES6 (with eslint) a shot, it no longer has a special place in my heart.

I do enjoy the terseness of it (writing it is fun) but some things are just painful (reading it after the fact).

As for TS vs ES6+ -- I would go with TS but only because Angular projects have a tendency to become very large, and having a compile-time type system hold your team's hand is very comforting.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by X-Istence »

aikah wrote: post #13
jlooper wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

Great. It's right there in the sentence you quoted.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by pkozlowski_os »

estsauver wrote: post #26

I had a really painful time trying to contribute to the angular 2 project. I get the impression that the developers actively working on this are working with discussion mostly internal to Google. It's a shame, because it does seem like both a very powerful and nice approach to building SPAs that I would love to contribute to.

@estsauver while I agree that it takes some time to get into contributing into a big project like Angular 2, it is simply not true that it is "Google only" project. I'm a regular contributor (#6 in terms of no of commits: https://github.com/angular/angular/graphs/contributors) and I don't work for Google.

Angular team is bunch of great people, real pleasure to work with. I can tell you - the initial effort to start contributing pays off _very_ fast.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by EugeneOZ »

estsauver wrote: post #26

I had a really painful time trying to contribute to the angular 2 project. I get the impression that the developers actively working on this are working with discussion mostly internal to Google. It's a shame, because it does seem like both a very powerful and nice approach to building SPAs that I would love to contribute to.

Welcome to chat, https://gitter.im/angular/angular, we often talk here with ng-team members and developers who use ng2 for their projects (like me).

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by EugeneOZ »

pil4rin wrote: post #19
aikah wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Angular 2 render engine allows it to be used for the server-side rendering or in NativeScript environment.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by fnordsensei »

revelation wrote: post #3

That's Google for you, having to present your exciting MVW toolkit on the crash accident of a website that is Blogspot. Right now, there is a massive cookie consent form blocking my view of the actual article.

I've yet to run into a site that doesn't set cookies anyway. Those things seem to be there just to comply with that nonsensical law.

There are even some adblock/ublock/what-have-you filters now that block those forms.

Re: Angular 2 Beta released

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Post by alancobb »

_alexander_ wrote: post #37

Angular size really impressive: angular2.min.js - 568K Version 1.4.* angular.min.js - 148K File size really increased (Angular1 * 4 == Angular2), if compared with first version. Something went wrong.

Unless it has been cached (from visiting other sites), this is terrible first time user experience for those with slow connection.
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