Angular: A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps

[grymloregoof]

if you have the necessary background (data binding, dependency injection, nodejs, declarative vs imperative programming), this is a fantastic talk. if you don't, i would guess it is a jumbled mess that is hard to follow.

if you are interested in creating pure html/js apps with very little server side code being executed, angular is a really interesting approach. it's absolutely amazing how much you can do with so little code.

[grymloregoof]

@grymloregoof on the other hand, there are many approaches which are far more mature. plus, many of these approaches are quite a bit simpler to understand (but are arguably less powerful).

vaadin,etc mentioned below are radically different approaches (toolkits+libraries) and can't really be compared to angular. once vaadin incorporates a declarative method of creating views and incorporates data binding, i think it's going to be fantastic (much like how nice it is to create xaml apps).

[jkelkar]

I really liked that *angular* provides a way to extend html as well as make it dynamic without mucking up the html code. The amount of javascript to be be written is minimal. Net benefit: improvements in angular directly reflect in the page *without* and change to the page.

[jhlagado]

I like the declarative nature of this.

The best thing is the elimination of vast quantities of controller code. The HTML document is its own template. Elegant.

[paucarre]

This is nothing revolutionary. The same painful stuff: javascript programming, json serialization and dom manipulation.

The only comfortable frameworks I have used are ZK and Vaadin: no javascript, no serialization, no dom manipulation. Just like desktop programming.

[jhlagado]

@paucarre fine if you are Java programmer. This is obviously not for you.

[paucarre]

@jhlagado It's not about languages, it's about architecture. If you develop a web app you want the view to be perfectly synchronized with the server data. This is a pain if you do it with javascript+"server language" when developing rich Internet applications.

With Vaadin and ZK it is trivial to develop RIAs without harm.

[muyuu]

After 20 minutes, I still failed to realise why, how and what is this all about.

Pass.

Seriously, this thing is frustrating. Make a prerequisite list and STICK TO IT. Make sure people can understand what's going on, or just show the result.

[emb3rz]

@muyuu I fail to see how your lack of understanding is somehow his fault. It makes perfect sense to me, and I think it sounds great!

[athox]

interesting. hope this could be a browser thing some day. like the JSON library is. you could just call window.angular() and it would kickstart it.