Angular JS

an opinionated developer's journey

to adopting an opinionated framework

My journey begins...

• Multimedia developer
  used Flash for interactivity
   
• IPhone == death of Flash
   
• Jumped ship early

Javascript:
a new hope

• Native javascript & jQuery
   
• "Roll your own" libraries

Internet Explorer:
the empire strikes back

• Internet Explorer != standards
   
• Spend effort avoiding or working around issues rather than innovating

Modernizr & Backbone:
return of the jedi

• Feature not browser detection
   
• MVC approach to frontend
   
• Frontend developers start to engineer rather than hack

Hipster developers:
the phantom menace

• Frontend development becoming trendy and fashionable
  
  
• Some developers give frontend a bad name
  
  
• Conflict with backend developers

"Your frontend developer is probably an uber-hipster who would keel over and die without his mac and latte"

Library explosion:
attack of the clones

• Selecting tools becomes a skill of it's own
   
• Constantly trying to keep up
   
• Framework fatigue
   
• Developers learn many, but master none

Web Apps:
revenge of the sith

• Web apps bring radical increase in complexity
   
• Development teams cobble together unmaintainable solutions
   
• Clients want features not fluff

Angular JS:
the force awakens

• Angular provided opinionated framework for professional development
   
• Backed by Google
   
• Gained popularity
  very rapidly

Angular 2:
episode viii

• A complete rewrite fixes mistakes
• Simpler component based architecture similar to React
• Typescript

Questions?