Angular 2.0

Still young

Good things

• Modular (component based)
• Data stores
• Flexible- ES6, Typescript, ES5
• Fast (supposedly)
• Traditional (html, js, css)
• Big backer (google), big dev community
• Doesn't have jQuery Lite

Bad Things

• Flexible- ES6, Typescript, ES5
• Traditional
• Not ready for dev preview
  • Lots of missing features from 1.0

Aurelia

Simplified Ng 1.0

Good Things

• We already know how it works
• More explicit syntax
• Component based 
  • ES6 and ES7
• No directives insight

Bad Things

• Old dog, old tricks

EmberJS 2.0

Complete MVC

Good Things

• Robust, component based
• Templates use handlebars ++
• Routing is simpler
• Matches our MVC framework

Bad things

• Matches our MVC framework
• Code duplication
• Huge start up time
• Own testing framework

React JS 1.0

Forward thinking

Good things

• Forward thinking.
• Component based.
• Flux architecture
  • Great data store.
• Animations right out of the box.
• Simple++++++++
• All in one page.

Bad things

• Still young/rapidly changing
• All in one page.
• Testing is still questionable.
• Groking Flux/Redux

Final Opinions

Davide:

Depends

If we want to be future proof for a NoSql, non-restful API: 

React || Angular 2.0

If we want to be really good at MVC:

Ember 2

Luis:

Depends

If we want to be near future proof:

React

If we want to be really good at MVC:

Ember 2

If we want to be faster:

Improve the way we use angular 1.x

Short term JS Todo List

Live Reloading with Rails

• Figure out a way to reload our development JS/SASS files.
• Probably Webpack.
• Temp Fix: LiveReload App with the LiveReload Chrome Extension (works, but full page refresh when HTML/JS changes are done).

Integrating ES6 with Angular 1

• Babel
  • Transpiler: sprockets-es6
    • failing until we update rails 
• Traceur
  • By Google
    • currently testing
• Need to figure out the best syntax

Using Services/DataStores In Our Current App

• Need some sort of smart data store/caching system for many of our models
• Angular 1
  • js-data-angular