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Re:The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks by nailer on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:05AM (#16124961)
Why are 'angular' and 'angular.js' seperate tags?
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Re:The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks by _greim_ on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:13AM (#16125024)
Presumably that reflects the 1.x / 2.x split. They're arguably different enough to be treated as separate frameworks.
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Re:The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks by tboyd47 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:12AM (#16125021)
AngularJS refers to major version 1, Angular refers to 2.
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Re:The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks by nailer on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:19PM (#16125645)
Wow. That's really unintuitive.
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Re:The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks by jedwardhawkins on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:27PM (#16126370)
I agree with the sentiment. Most people view them as distinct frameworks. I believe the use of the name Angular for major version 2+ helped retain a lot of users. I've seen a lot of uninformed devs and managers assume that because they already have so much code in AngularJS that Angular is the next logical tool for their team to use.
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