G2

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Jesse S.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/22/2016

"Solid, productive framework starting to show it's age (1.x)"

2/5

What do you like best about angularjs?

Angular's biggest benefit for our team was in providing an intelligent way to provide structure around application logic. Got a page for tracking incoming sales? Separate logic out into TransactionController + TransactionService, with directives for shared components.

It has also been around long enough that it has an excellent community with well-maintained modules, making it easy to get productive right out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about angularjs?

We still use Angular for internal projects, but the learning curve in more advanced use cases (understanding the complexities of the digest cycle, setting up a $watch, $scope.$apply(), the difference between 'link' and 'compile' functions in directives, etc) has led us to adopt React for customer-facing projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering angularjs:

We still use Angular for internal projects, but the learning curve in more advanced use cases (understanding the complexities of the digest cycle, setting up a $watch, $scope.$apply(), the difference between 'link' and 'compile' functions in directives, etc) has led us to adopt React for customer-facing projects.

I wouldn't recommend Angular 1.x over React for new projects for most teams, although it continues to be an excellent and well-maintained framework. Angular 2.x is a completely different beast, and a step in the right direction, but I haven't had the opportunity to work with it at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is angularjs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our use of Angular has been restricted to our internal CMS for managing sales, customer relations, and other business interests. As an internal-facing product, it's often been subject to frequent requests to tweak this or that, add small features here and there, etc; and the architectural structure Angular encourages (when used right) have allowed us to implement those requests quickly and relatively painlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.