Hugo Josefson
Senior Web Consultant at www.jayway.com
What's special about
AngularJS
(Lightning Talk)
Hugo Josefson / Jayway 2013
Overview
- What is AngularJS?
- What makes it special?
- Adoption advice
What is AngularJS?
Client-side framework for web apps
by Google, Open Source
Embraces and extends:
HTML, CSS, JS
HTML, CSS, JS
"What HTML would have been
had it been designed for applications"
Used for Doubleclick.net
( where Google makes money )
and for youtube.com/tv
builtwith.angularjs.org
What makes it special?
The Angular Way
Go with it, don't fight it!
Work directly with Data objects
to drive the applicationBind UI (HTML) to Data objects
"Two-way data binding"
What makes it special?
The Angular Way
Go with it, don't fight it!
Create your own HTML elements
with Directivesfor custom web components
Avoid manipulating the UI directly
except through Directives
except through Directives
What makes it special?
Learning curve
^ effort ^
┃ ┃ .-------------
┃ ┃ .-----/
┃ .---- ┃ /
┃ Two-way | vs ┃ |
┃ data binding | ┃ |
┃ / Directives ┃ |
┃ Services | ┃ |
┃ .---------------/ ┃ |
┃----/ ┃ /
╄━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━> time ╄━━━━━━━━━━━━━━>
What makes it special?
Separation of concerns
→ keep source code well-structured
→ easier to test
→ better stability, quality,
stable development pace
stable development pace
Adoption advice
- Allow yourself to code The Angular way
- Make the team want it!
- Learn to code Directives really well
- at least one person
- ( good components → efficient programming! )
Thank you!
Questions?
hugo.josefson@jayway.com
What's special about AngularJS? (Lightning Talk)
By Hugo Josefson
What's special about AngularJS? (Lightning Talk)
AngularJS has received massive response and been widely adopted. Why? And what makes it so special?
