Angular JS Kinda Sucks

I think the fact that the author is comparing angular with jquery as if they're two tools for doing the same thing probably illustrates a lack of understanding of what angular really is and what it's supposed to be for...

This sort of reads like a parody. Halfway through it i couldn't tell if he was serious or not. Still not really sure.

Well done.

Well, I think Angular may be unintuitive for people having gotten used to the "jquery way" of thinking. But I think the jquery way of thinking is the problem here. For too long people have been doing direct DOM-manipulation, and fail to see how they can achieve what they want in a more declarative manner.

When I started using Angular I had really no experience with jquery or any other js framework, and I felt Angular was intuitive.

I don't get it. What is this article even supposed to be about?

A big point about angular's tutorial is that it isn't really explicit enough is how everything links together. It's a lot easier to learn angular by taking some sort of class or going to some presentation, because the tutorial in its current form does not explain general architecture.

Another issue is a lot of people present angular as this sort of "oh hey, check out the data-binding stuff!" , when that is just a small part of the entire mechanism. Angular's big advantage is that it allows you to organize your javascript into nice little modules, and it gives you deterministic behavior about how these load (with the dependency resolution and whatnot).

To me this post boils down to "I already know jQuery, this isn't jQ, so WTF". Well, godspeed, you fancy bastard.

I wouldn't use Angular for a small'ih average website where you want some minor JS-based UI functionality. But I found Angular much more suited than jQuery for big sites that are maintained by more than just one developer. You can look at some piece of HTML and you can tell from the list of directives what's going on. No stray click handlers and whatnot.

One of my more recent clients had used jQuery for ~8 years, the HTML had changed a lot in that time and the JS had grown like a cancer due to developer fluctation and people just adding code to fix their current problems. Quite frankly, it was a mess. I believe that with a framework like Angular it wouldn't have gotten out of hand like this, mostly due to its modular approach to everything.