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AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular

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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!

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)

It was clear from the start of Angular 2, not from the start of Angular (later renamed AngularJS).

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!

This is why I never even considered flutter development. Who knows when the platform will just die on the vine.

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!

You should have talked to an old GWT dev before starting down the road of using a Google maintained framework.

I’ve seen gwt. It smells bad, but it seems supported still. Can you elaborate on your comment so I have conversation points next time I deal with that team?

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

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I was asked to use angular in a java job. I was going crazy with all the files you need to have for a small project. It's like all the horrible sides of OOP and abstraction, but on steroids.

I don't think Angular targets small projects, but enterprise projects.

> It's like all the horrible sides of OOP and abstraction, but on steroids.

Can you go more into detail?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "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.

1 instead of zero index based languages such as e.g Julia therefore remove a LOT of cognitive overhead.

Not using indices at all when iterating whenever possible completely eliminates the cognitive overhead.

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

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As an ex-AngularJS developer, who worked on porting a LARGE app to Angular - if you're in that boat, look into just rewriting in Vue. It's similar to AngularJS (more so than Angular) but with some extra niceties.

We were very close to doing the same but then we discovered Svelte. Svelte has been a dream to work with so far.

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

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As an ex-AngularJS developer, who worked on porting a LARGE app to Angular - if you're in that boat, look into just rewriting in Vue. It's similar to AngularJS (more so than Angular) but with some extra niceties.

I worked on AngularJS and moved to Angular ever since 2+. It is a great platform and actually similar to Vue in some respects. No reason to abandon Angular although Vue and others are also good.

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!

why would you be bitter since they just improved the platform. It wasn't hard to learn the migration and AngularJS needed to be let go. Angular is every bit as good as other alternatives.

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

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Our company saw the writing on the wall several years ago and completely ditched AngularJs and moved to React. It was wildly successful - after the whole project was rewritten there was dramatically less code, even though we added tests and new features along the way.

https://www.singlewire.com/blog/development/react-migration

Just doing it piece-by-piece was a really good strategy, instead of a stop-the-world rewrite.

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