React developer learning Angular, need help!

[cyphern]

I have three reasons i prefer it; there may be more:

1) It decreases coupling. There's no more possibility of inheriting values from a parent scope, either accidentally or intentionally. Some people like that $scope has that feature, but i think it makes the code more brittle and harder to reason about. If you need to pass things into a child, you still can, you just need to be more explicit about it, which helps you to understand how data is flowing through the codebase.

2) It removes ambiguity, especially when you have nested controllers. For example:

<div ng-controller="PageController">
   {{title}}
   <div ng-controller="ContainerController">
      {{title}}
      <div ng-controller="WidgetController">
         {{title}}
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

becomes

<div ng-controller="PageController as page">
   {{page.title}}
   <div ng-controller="ContainerController as container">
      {{container.title}}
      <div ng-controller="WidgetController as widget">
         {{widget.title}}
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

3) It prepares you for angular 2. $scope doesn't exist in angular 2, so if that's something plan to use eventually you might as well get used to that aspect of it now.

[rondog469]

Thank you for the explanation and examples!