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Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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When the deprecation was originally announced I basically just decided to sever from Angular all together. The "migration" practically involved rewriting pretty much everything anyway. The new thing is surely technically superior, but it just left me very bitter. I learned my lesson!

Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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Totally correct to discontinue the old AngularJS imho. Google, years ago, made one of the best choice adopting TypeScript for its new framework, Angular. I used to code in both AngularJS and Angular, and the improvement between the two is huge, thanks also to TypeScript. I'm a big Angular fan, even if I tried React, I highly prefer Angular for being more strict, complete and imho more suited for very big projects.

Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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"Clarification: AngularJS and Angular are different frameworks. The announcement for end of life is for AngularJS that Google released in 2010. Angular is in active development and growing. Exciting big changes coming in 2022!"

> Originally, the rewrite of AngularJS was called "Angular 2", but this led to confusion among developers. To clarify, the Team announced that separate terms should be used for each framework with "AngularJS" referring to the 1.X versions and "Angular" without the "JS" referring to versions 2 and up.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(web_framework)#Naming

Well, nice try I guess. Still, they do say that "Naming things" is one of the two hard problems in computer science.

Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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post #5

Totally correct to discontinue the old AngularJS imho. Google, years ago, made one of the best choice adopting TypeScript for its new framework, Angular. I used to code in both AngularJS and Angular, and the improvement between the two is huge, thanks also to TypeScript. I'm a big Angular fan, even if I tried React, I highly prefer Angular for being more strict, complete and imho more suited for very big projects.

> I'm a big Angular fan, even if I tried React, I highly prefer Angular for being more strict, complete and imho more suited for very big projects.

I agree, I just moved us to Angular 13 and I love every second of it.

I've worked on React projects but will take Angular any day of the week.

Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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post #4

When the deprecation was originally announced I basically just decided to sever from Angular all together. The "migration" practically involved rewriting pretty much everything anyway. The new thing is surely technically superior, but it just left me very bitter. I learned my lesson!

AngularJS is a different framework. They are not the same and i think that was very clear from the start.

( I've written webapps in both AngularJS and Angular)

Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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post #6
post #3

"Clarification: AngularJS and Angular are different frameworks. The announcement for end of life is for AngularJS that Google released in 2010. Angular is in active development and growing. Exciting big changes coming in 2022!"

> Originally, the rewrite of AngularJS was called "Angular 2", but this led to confusion among developers. To clarify, the Team announced that separate terms should be used for each framework with "AngularJS" referring to the 1.X versions and "Angular" without the "JS" referring to versions 2 and up. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(web_framework)#Naming Well, nice try I guess. Still, they do say that "Namin…

> "Naming things" is one of the two hard problems in computer science.

For those who don't know, the other two are: Cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

Re: AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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post #7
post #5

Totally correct to discontinue the old AngularJS imho. Google, years ago, made one of the best choice adopting TypeScript for its new framework, Angular. I used to code in both AngularJS and Angular, and the improvement between the two is huge, thanks also to TypeScript. I'm a big Angular fan, even if I tried React, I highly prefer Angular for being more strict, complete and imho more suited for very big projects.

> I'm a big Angular fan, even if I tried React, I highly prefer Angular for being more strict, complete and imho more suited for very big projects. I agree, I just moved us to Angular 13 and I love every second of it. I've worked on React projects but will take Angular any day of the week.

Having worked with both, react much much less, but more recently, I find react just simpler to get stuff done with. Angular has a pretty rigid structure that I felt required more files and code (even if you just use the ng CLI to code gen the initial component or service) to do the same thing.

Obviously the batteries included nature of Angular is nice. But otherwise I felt less burdened by the amount of code I need to write and read in react.

RxJS is nice though and testing via dependency injection as long as your app isnt a horrible mess and has good decoupling.

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