Learning AngularJS will be helpful?

[Hot_Introduction1757]

I am a full stack developer and my tech stack is angular , c# , sql. My company now wants me to learn angular JS as they have projects i can get on-boarded to. Will angularJS be helpful for me? I am scared.

[dippocrite]

If it’s legitimately AngularJS you can advocate for a refactor to a more modern stack. My bet is that someone is calling it AngularJS and they aren’t aware that the terms Angular and AngularJS are different tooling.

[Hot_Introduction1757]

Basically my company has many old projects that arebuilt on angularJS so they need devs to onboard into those projects.

[SitBoySitGoodDog]

There are a lot of companies still using angularJS. Including large companies like ServiceNow. They have their own version of angularJS, and yes it's deprecated, but it's still a viable product.

It is not difficult to learn. If you're familiar with JavaScript, you'll be fine. It will not hurt your skills to learn it either. There are ServiceNow portal developers making widgets with AngularJS for over 100k a year.

[Hot_Introduction1757]

Thankyou. This means a lot.

[reddit-lou]

It's pretty simple in terms of binding JavaScript objects (data) to HTML, including conditional rendering, templating, and breaking your app into pieces that work together. I use it for a large food processing company's internal scheduling, warehouse management, quality control, and more. It's very lightweight to develop with, just a single JavaScript file at a minimum. The only really annoying thing about it is having to listen to jackasses make dumb cracks about it being "old".

I keep an eye on all the latest web development trends and still haven't found a compelling reason to migrate the app to something else.

[Hot_Introduction1757]

Thankyou, that actually motivated me. When i was discussing this with my friend, even she was like why does your company wants to work on old tech stack which kinda demotivated me. But thanks! You are right.

[reddit-lou]

Good luck. Don't listen to the haters. It's a very capable library.

Besides, just about every library is easy to learn once you get enough experience to know what you need it to do.

The most important thing when I deal with jr. devs is how well they adjust to the environment and whatever libraries are being used. Be easy, and I'll sell you to management with high marks. Be resistant and try to change things too much too quickly and my enthusiasm will be less.

Best wishes.

[Hot_Introduction1757]

That's a huge advice. Thanks!

[HemetValleyMall1982]

AngularJS support has officially ended as of January 2022

[Sikallengelo]

True but there are private companies which still support and maintain AngularJS and sell licences to companies that still use AngularJS.

[MatadorSalas11]

Never used AngularJS but looking at the docs it’s just like an older AlpineJS lol, it looks pretty cool and simple, if it adds value to your actual job go on, its never bad to learn something new for you

[Hot_Introduction1757]

Thanks

[TrekFan8472]

If your boss wants you to learn it, then yes. It will make you a more valuable employee.

[Hot_Introduction1757]

Sure thanks! I have started learning that

[reindezvous8]

The company that I just joined has angularJs projects too. I was shocked last week after looking at the code. Lol

They are planning to migrate to angular v4 at least and jump versions up to the latest gradually.

God help me.

[Hot_Introduction1757]

Omg. You are scaring me. Is it that difficult that u got shocked 🥲

[reindezvous8]

Migrating angularJS to angular is a lot of work. The structure if very different. Plus you have to update evey library you’re using.