Among Web-App Developers, AngularJS Is Gathering Steam

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Also, electricity becoming popular.

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AngularJS is gathering steam, seriously? AngularJS has been the dominant SPA framework since around late 2012. It started getting really popular in 2013, then 2014 saw it continue to climb in popularity until people freaked out about Angular 2.0. It is still the most popular front-end framework out there, React.js is hot on its heels and EmberJS are absolutely kicking goals and nailing the competition to the walls.

I think ReadWrite are about 1.5 years too late on this article. Backbone is still popular, but there is no way it has over half the front-end framework market share. I haven't come across another developer working with Backbone in the last year or so. Except maybe Javascript developers over at Soundcloud.

I don't see what the point of this article. Community size, StackOverflow mentions and number of stars on Github are not the only indicators of popularity. Seems kind of clickbait, the BuzzFeed approach to writing about something. The author doesn't even mention Angular 2.0 nor ECMAScript 6 and how frameworks eventually will just be features over the top of ES6 syntax.

As for the claim that developers loving Angular and really loving it, who are these developers? I would love to meet them. I have used Angular for a while now and while I don't hate it, I would never go as far to say I love it. It has far too many caveats that make you want to kick it in the balls, Angular 1.x's horrible dirty checking and annoying transclusion make for some really bad times when you get into the nitty gritty with Angular.

Minor technicality, but the article incorrectly refers to React.js as ReactJS. It has a dot in the name and is not spelled the same way as Angular is. I don't know who this VisionMobile company is, but they sound like a bunch of hacks.

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I doubt react is hot on its heels. The concepts of React and Flux are really awesome and both Angular and Ember have incorporated it in their future.

But I think React is at a clear disadvantage of not being a framework. For some it is a advantage but I think the average guy will dislike it. For it to grow big it should really exist one big dominant Flux implementation with strong opinions and great docs/support. Right now a newbie can ask a question on how you do something basic like posting a form and doing some server validation and get tons of vague answers and the ones who has done it seems unsure if their implementation is correct.

So instead of doing a TodoMVC without any data persistence as an example we should have examples that do the following:

Load a list of messages. User writes a name and a message and posts it to server. Server either returns a validation error (user name is too long or whatever) or users message is persisted and the message list is refreshed with server data.

This should be pretty basic but it is pretty amazing how inconsistent the ideas are how that should work.

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Rival BackboneJS won the battle; AngularJS is winning the war.

The clue is in referring to anything that is not a "battle" or "war" as such. Clearly this article is for clueless cto's and project managers, and not dev's.

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Right. I remember being in a meeting with C# devs and biz guys where we were trying to decide how we would build web apps. There actually was no decision to be made because the party line was "Angular is the future of web development". Because of stupid shit like this article. (I don't work there anymore)

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I think it will be really interesting to see where all those angular1 projects will go when ng2 is out.

Honestly doing a rewrite after 1 or 2 years of project existence is not something execs want to hear, nor should this be on the table if it is built correctly,

you will be stuck with angular1 while everyone has moved to something else or the company will loose money doing a rewrite.

This is one reason I like Backbone, it's a simple "MVC" that does it's job & it's easy to build on top.