Re:Learn AngularJS
by ebbv on Friday April 03, 2015 @10:59AM
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Yeah learning Angular 1.x right now is pretty much a waste of time. I learned it last year and feel like a sucker due to the drastic changes in 2.
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Re:Learn AngularJS
by ExpiredLink on Friday April 03, 2015 @11:08AM
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But demand for Angular 1 is still high. Who knows if 2 will be such a great success.
Re:Learn AngularJS
by brandall10 on Friday April 03, 2015 @03:03PM
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I spent the majority of last year working on an Angular project, and I have 3+ years as a Rails dev.
One thing that's surprised me is I get nearly as much attention from recruiters for Angular work as for Rails. I think this is mostly due to the .NET world embracing it, they tend to be enterprisey gigs.
Give it a few years, and Angular 1.x is going to be like COBOL in the early 90s. Lotsa code out there to maintain...
And everyone loves enterprise maintenance gigs!
Re:Learn AngularJS
by ExpiredLink on Sunday April 05, 2015 @12:27PM
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... if they pay handsomely.
Google's abandoning Angular 1.x, IMHO it's foolish to try to hang on to it.
I agree.
My company also felt really burned when hearing Angular 2 is not backwards compatible.
Probably going to be looking into React now.
Company where I currently work, feels pretty happy about using AngularJS 1.x.
We aware of Angular 2 and very glad to see changes (especially Rendering Architecture).
We know there will be migration path, but it's not so important - projects, which works good with 1.x, will remain on 1.x branch, and this branch will be supported long time enough.
When Angular 2 will be released, we are going to try it in new apps. We are playing with ng2 in sandboxes like https://github.com/pkozlowski-opensource/ng2-play and changes are not as dramatic as most people thinks. Well, maybe forms and 2-way binding, but everything else just got more modern API mostly.
Why? React isn't a full framework and solves a completely different problem.
A lot of time was spent training people on angular. Angular being so big meant more training. I'm guessing our Tech Leads are more comfortable with React because it isn't a framework.
The main issue stemmed from research, development, and training costs from what I understand.
Re:Learn AngularJS
by andrewrice on Friday April 03, 2015 @12:22PM
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Hi s_baby, can you elaborate on some of the problems each is suited for? I've been considering diving into React for a few weeks now.
It's fairly simple to piece together a framework with React. I'm using React, Flux, React-Router and Superagent.
Yes, it isn't backwards compatible, but you can use AngularJS 2 side by side with Angular 1.X. There were migration paths presented at NG Japan.