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Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by jeffcunningham »

jval wrote: post #2

Neat, although I'm more interested in when you plan on having this book out... Angular is incredibly powerful but it really could use with some more resources for those who are picking it up.

I've read the OReilly AngularJS book, and am now reading a new pre-published version of an AngularJS book from Packt: http://www.packtpub.com/angularjs-web-application-developmen...

I'm only 2 chapters into it, but it is excellent so far. If you search for Packt coupons, you can pick up the ebook for around $16.

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by metaphorm »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #4

Seeing the word "controller" in markup makes me want to gag myself.

you should learn about the angular concept of scope before gagging on this. its actually a very elegant mechanism for letting you treat a segment of the document as lexically scoped data within your Javascript.

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by nobleach »

metaphorm wrote: post #44
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #4

Seeing the word "controller" in markup makes me want to gag myself.

you should learn about the angular concept of scope before gagging on this. its actually a very elegant mechanism for letting you treat a segment of the document as lexically scoped data within your Javascript.

I think he/she's going after the idea of polluting one's view with all sorts of non-standard markup invokes a gag reflex. I'm amazed that Google chose to adopt such an ugly non-standard idea. HTML5 does allow for data attributes, why on earth did Angular choose to ignore those? "ng-repeat", "ng-pooponastick" etc??? Most templating languages to not violate the actual HTML attributes to exploit their purposes. I'm not hating on Angular.js yet as I've yet to use it in a real project. But I'd hate to have to migrate a project from Angular to a more pure template.

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by drhayes9 »

taude wrote: post #31
jval wrote: post #2

Neat, although I'm more interested in when you plan on having this book out... Angular is incredibly powerful but it really could use with some more resources for those who are picking it up.

O'Reily has a book out on AngularJS that's a succinct read: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028055.do

I can't quite recommend that book. A lot of the code examples contain errors and, worse, some of them are subtle errors in nomenclature (the text refers to the "myService" service but the code declares it as "service" in one place and then "myService" in another) and not jsut typos.

And yes, that was intentional.

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by codereflection »

goronbjorn wrote: post #15

If anything, this post shows that Medium needs a good way to display code snippets–having to resort to screenshots is pretty gross.

Screenshots work universally across language settings, so I think they're very appropriate.

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by WickyNilliams »

nobleach wrote: post #45
metaphorm wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you should learn about the angular concept of scope before gagging on this. its actually a very elegant mechanism for letting you treat a segment of the document as lexically scoped data within your Javascript.

I think he/she's going after the idea of polluting one's view with all sorts of non-standard markup invokes a gag reflex. I'm amazed that Google chose to adopt such an ugly non-standard idea. HTML5 does allow for data attributes, why on earth did Angular choose to ignore those? "ng-repeat", "ng-pooponastick" etc??? Most templating languages to not violate the actual HTML attributes to exploit their purposes. I'm not…

You can use data-* attributes in angular if you're not keen on invalid attributes e.g. data-ng-repeat. It used to be slightly broken, but I've been led to believe this is no longer the case.

As for making up your own elements as angular allows you to do, I think this is actually quite forward thinking. This is basically what the ShadowDOM[0] is all about, and when becomes common place you won't bat an eyelid seeing in HTML.

[0] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowd...

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by metaphorm »

nobleach wrote: post #45
metaphorm wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you should learn about the angular concept of scope before gagging on this. its actually a very elegant mechanism for letting you treat a segment of the document as lexically scoped data within your Javascript.

I think he/she's going after the idea of polluting one's view with all sorts of non-standard markup invokes a gag reflex. I'm amazed that Google chose to adopt such an ugly non-standard idea. HTML5 does allow for data attributes, why on earth did Angular choose to ignore those? "ng-repeat", "ng-pooponastick" etc??? Most templating languages to not violate the actual HTML attributes to exploit their purposes. I'm not…

angular allows you to prefix any html directive with "data-" to make it fully compliant with the html5 spec.

you can certainly use in your angular templates and have it pass a validator for html5 and still work with angular.

Re: Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

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Post by WickyNilliams »

shaydoc wrote: post #28

Just had try doing a KnockoutJS version of this also : http://anexiledderryman.com/post/51714264769/facebooks-new-r...

I think knockout is a fairer comparison than angular. KO is not at all prescriptive, just one piece in the puzzle which you combine with other things, much like React professes to be.
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