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Can anyone comment from experience on the testability of Angular.js, that is mentioned in the article? Was it a reason to chose Angular.js over some other framework (if so, which framework)?
> Angular.js is built from the ground up with testing in mind. In our opinion this makes Angular different from all other frameworks out there. It is the reason we chose it.
Would be interesting to hear if you discovered any downsides to Angular. I've been working with it a lot lately, but it seems to be a really good solution and the only issues with it is it can be hard to set up to be compatible with googlebot and the slightly tough learning curve
Here's the few downsides of Angular IMO :
- I'm particularly unhappy with the router, it does a good job but as soon as you start to have nested routes and complex layout, it you want to avoid copy-pasting the same bits of code everywhere it becomes a nightmare. We mitigated most of these issues by using a lot of directives but it doesn't solve the problem entirely. We looked at ui-router at some point but weren't totally satisfied by the way it worked. Maybe we should take another look.
- errors are sometimes very obscure, it can be hard to debug, even if at some point you start to recognize some errors and know where to look first
- docs could be better
There are some other glitches here and there but most of the time Angular is a real pleasure to use, it's by far the best front-end framework I've worked with.
not as good as ng-boilerplate http://joshdmiller.github.io/ng-boilerplate/#/home with its modular cut and paste directory structure.
What are some large AngularJS projects that have been launched? I could only find Google DoubleClick and YouTube's PS3 interface. http://builtwith.angularjs.org/ Not to downplay the Ermahgerd Translator! http://ermahgerd.jmillerdesign.com/#!/translate
What are some large AngularJS projects that have been launched? I could only find Google DoubleClick and YouTube's PS3 interface. http://builtwith.angularjs.org/ Not to downplay the Ermahgerd Translator! http://ermahgerd.jmillerdesign.com/#!/translate
not as good as ng-boilerplate http://joshdmiller.github.io/ng-boilerplate/#/home with its modular cut and paste directory structure.
Unfortunately we couldn't do it before because we're using rails assets pipeline, but it should happen soon now.
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Example: I'm working on a "large" CakePHP application (similar to Rails) with 24,000 lines of our own code, 57,000 lines of code from community plugins, and 240,000 lines of core framework code.
It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails). Lines of code comparisons do not scale between programming languages.
- Django - 215,000 LOC (.py)
- Ruby - 232,000 LOC (.rb)
- CakePHP - 240,000 LOC (.php)
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It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails). Lines of code comparisons do not scale between programming languages.
I'm not sure I agree. All the frameworks just mentioned do more or less the same thing and have comparable lines of code counts. - Django - 215,000 LOC (.py) - Ruby - 232,000 LOC (.rb) - CakePHP - 240,000 LOC (.php)
What are some large AngularJS projects that have been launched? I could only find Google DoubleClick and YouTube's PS3 interface. http://builtwith.angularjs.org/ Not to downplay the Ermahgerd Translator! http://ermahgerd.jmillerdesign.com/#!/translate
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Example: I'm working on a "large" CakePHP application (similar to Rails) with 24,000 lines of our own code, 57,000 lines of code from community plugins, and 240,000 lines of core framework code.
It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails). Lines of code comparisons do not scale between programming languages.
Interesting claim. Do you have references?
(An account with a couple of hundreds of Karma making extreme claims? Please surprise me by not being a troll. :-) )