Angular Reviews & Product Details

Integrated with TypeScript and RxJS.

Injectable services.

Built-in router

lazy loading.

Has router.

Nice template engine with *nfIf and *ngFor directives and also with formatting pipes. Great user guides.

Awesome way to organize your code: everything could be included to a module and then could be imported.

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Unreadable errors in the console. Sometimes not obvious behavior in terms of zone.js.

Sometimes it's impossible to debug it.

Sophisticated building process is required.

Documentation is still poor and sometimes even misleading.

Lack of example projects. Existing examples usually don't show a good way to structure the code.

It is very hard to learn for new programmers.

angular-cli, the generator, looks not so useful yet. It should be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Angular team has decided, with the newest incarnation of the framework, a radical departure from the vanilla Javascript flavor of AngularJS to TypeScript. In my opinion, this bold move is the feature that mostly benefits the framework and makes working with it much safer and rewarding than ever before. I love the fact that the project can be packaged in modules. Not that modules were not an intrinsic features of AngularJS, it just feels that they are more of a core feature in Angular.io. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Some tools, for instance NPM can be a pain to use on Windows.

- Some NPM packages written for AngularJS have yet to be ported on Angular.io

- Documentation could be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to generate components using Angular CLI

- Great documentation

- Amazing support and packages available

- Very easy to update, manipulate, and create new environments

- Integrates great with external JS applications

- Multi-platform capable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Some of the error reporting isn't as helpful as it could be. I often find myself having to guess what the error reports mean. Luckily, stackoverflow often has an answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Single page application , easier to learn and faster development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Do not see any certification to do on angular expert Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Routing Module and Easy to integrate with external libraries like rxJs and ngRx. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance is little slow and there is some initial learning curve to pick concepts of framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coding style - Strictly follows OOPS

Modular - create UI elements similar to Plug and play format

Performance - Way faster than AngularJS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strictly follows Single page architecure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Angular is by far one of the most popular and supported front-end frameworks out there. It's developed and supported by a team at google which gives it instant credibility and so many companies/employers are hot for angular and will be even hotter for angular devs when 2.0 is all rolled out.

In comparing a framework, I don’t look at the common criteria of performance, popularity, or size. (It’s good to know these things, but you can easily find that information elsewhere.) I actually care about something else. If i'm going to be supporting my app for it's lifetime, I want to make sure it's not more of a hassle down the road.

Most frameworks help you spin up apps quickly. That's all great but if you're in it for the long haul, you want to make sure you can easily support your app. Who really cares how quick you spun it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too many frameworks fall into an all-too-common trap: they make it easy to get started quickly, which is great, and then make it very hard to maintain and extend your code over time.

Angular is known for having a steep learning curve and poor documentation. I think these are symptoms of a bigger problem. It’s not the documentation that’s at fault; it’s Angular. It’s just poorly designed. Here are a few of the flaws I discovered:

Finally, what we like to call, silent failure. It’s easy to do something wrong, have your app not work, and get no indication of why. Did you use "E" where you meant to use "A"? Your application just stopped working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Angular2 brings massive improvements on code organization., specially with modules and components. It uses ES6 and typescript so the code becomes more readable and organized. Promises and observables are also really handy. There is no more $scope and data binding is achieved simply by variables within the class. Oh, and there is also a great performance improvement from v1 as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There won't be backwards compatibility with previous versions, so if you're already using angularjs expect some major rewriting to comply with the new angular 2. It's not much of a dislike, but just a fact in case you're planning to upgrade. Starting now? Just go with Angular2! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Angular represents a pinnacle of modern web development. For relatively complex, single-page web applications that need to perform like desktop apps, Angular delivers a lot of benefits. It promotes proper modularization of code and can help you organize a complex app into reusable components that are only downloaded as needed. Angular 2 promotes the use of TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript, which allows you additional benefits over pure JavaScript, which I like very much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found the learning curve for Angular development to be somewhat steep, but that's coming from a developer who was shoving JavaScript into on-click handlers before JQuery was even born. The path to proficiency in Angular, for me, was not short. That being said, it forced me to modernize my tools, my workflow, and my overall front-end development approach. If you don't consider yourself up to speed on all the newfangled things like Node.js, CSS preprocessors, task runners like Gulp and what-not - you may want to think twice about diving into Angular development. If you're ready to up your game and the project can afford you or a team's learning curve, it might be worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AngularJS 1 was already a great framework for building webapps and hybrid apps, but after using it for a while you start feeling the lack of code structure and some issues with performance. Angular 2 completely changes the game by introducing typescript as primary language and adopting the component based system. The performance improved a lot and it feels way more reliable than AngularJS 1. Angular 2 is also constantly being updated and normally issues that you may encounter will not last long. It is the beginning of the next generation framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Angular 2 is still in early stages. The beta version just got released so expect small bugs and lack of some features. In the long term it will be a great framework, but it is still not there yet. Another problem is that it has no compatibility with Angular 1, this means that everything that you have done with angular 1, you will have to completely rewrite for Angular 2. It makes sense as the structure completely changed but it is something to consider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.