Re:Angular vs. React – the tie breaker
by lucisferre on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:26AM
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Sorry can you elaborate? How have they become more composable? I don't recall a point at least post 1.X where they were more or less useful for composition than they are now.
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Sure, there are a lot of subtle things which have been improved in later Angular versions.
First of all, you don't need $scope anymore in controllers, you can still use it for functions like $watch, but you don't need to inject it in just to add properties to your controller, you can just use `this.foo = 'bar';`
You also have the controllerAs syntax which I don't think is present in earlier Angular versions, which provides a shorthand for your controller, and bindToController for directives, which allows you to bind attribute values directly to the directives controller without extra syntax.
If I remember other things I will update this comment.