AngularJS Pain Points

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Post by theone » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 11:26 AM UTC

Re: AngularJS Pain Points

#2

Post by throwaway1979 » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 1:11 PM UTC

Bump on the complexity. I've been trying to learn Angular for months and I still don't think I am comfortable with it. The tutorials out there focus too much on basics. I found an early video on Youtube that described some of its internals (e.g. parsing your HTML/DOM), which helped.

I started looking into Backbone yesterday and found the initial curve to be so much better. There is no mystery in my mind on how to set up a basic model on top of a resty service and putting views and collections on top. I'm currently trying to decide if I should switch over to Backbone as I learn. I do realize there is a lot more code to write if I go the Backbone route. I think I can live without two-way data binding. However, I think will miss directives.

Re: AngularJS Pain Points

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Post by weavie » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

throwaway1979 wrote: post #2

Bump on the complexity. I've been trying to learn Angular for months and I still don't think I am comfortable with it. The tutorials out there focus too much on basics. I found an early video on Youtube that described some of its internals (e.g. parsing your HTML/DOM), which helped. I started looking into Backbone yesterday and found the initial curve to be so much better. There is no mystery in my mind on how to set…

I would agree.

I first started using Knockout.js and within an evening I was up and running and pretty much knew all I needed to know to get cracking.

Our whole team has been using Angular now for about 2 weeks and we are all still confused as hell about how we are supposed to get certain things working.

I can see the power of Angular, when stuff does click with it, it does really click. I think the problem is that thinking 'Angular' is completely different to working with jQuery and the DOM - for which I have years of habits deeply ingrained in me. The documentation really should make this clear from the start - 'forget everything you knew about front end development and start completely from scratch'.

Re: AngularJS Pain Points

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Post by adamnemecek » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 2:41 PM UTC

throwaway1979 wrote: post #2

Bump on the complexity. I've been trying to learn Angular for months and I still don't think I am comfortable with it. The tutorials out there focus too much on basics. I found an early video on Youtube that described some of its internals (e.g. parsing your HTML/DOM), which helped. I started looking into Backbone yesterday and found the initial curve to be so much better. There is no mystery in my mind on how to set…

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