Angular 2 Final Released

Post by iamcreasy » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 2:34 AM UTC

dlandis wrote: post #325

Yhippa wrote: post #2

Front end development is crazy these days. I remember on my road to learning Java EE banging my head on the wall trying to put together things like dependency management with Maven, ORM's, and all sorts of arcane concepts and patterns. It took me a long time to get to that point but now it seems all too familiar. As someone coming up to speed with frameworks like React and Angular 2 it feels like that all over again.

That's very true -- it is reminiscent of the old J2EE days 12+ years ago. But it didn't really take long back then for a consensus to emerge about how awful most of that technology was (enterprise java beans, etc) and for people to settle on more simplified, streamlined approaches. How long will it take for the momentum in the front end community to similarly shift away from these bloatware approaches?

I am a java programmer and I want to head towards web development. My first thought was learning JSP, Servlet and then move towards different frameworks like Spring. I don't know much - but can you tell me why JavaEE is an awful technology?

Post by krlkv » Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 8:40 AM UTC

lloyd-christmas wrote: post #305

Nemcue wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cons: 1. Typescript. If your team isn't familiar with it it's not trivial to get everyone on board. The up-front cost can absolutely be worth it in the long run, but there's some friction in the day-to-day work with managing type definition files and looking up esoteric lint-errors from the Typescript compiler. 2. RXJS. Canonical NG2 should use Observables, and rxjs is not a trivial library to learn the ins and outs…

We've converted all our node apps to typescript and I've even started messing around with replacing all our back end promises/callbacks with rxjs.

You might want to reconsider using RxJS on backend, since it is significantly slower than Bluebird promises (which you should be using instead of native V8 promises at least for now) http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/benchmarks.html

Re: Angular 2 Final Released

Re: Angular 2 Final Released