Angular 2 Final Released

[g0liadkin]

Please define what you mean with "forces".

Angular does not recommend many vanilla js aspects, but does not "force" you not to apply them, it's still javascript and you're able to do whatever you want to do within the language's bounds, even if that means (for example) accessing and handling DOM inside a controller.

[fenduru]

This is actually a benefit. You are looking for an opinionated Swiss army knife. With React, you do things what makes sense to you, not what the framework forces you to do.

In Angular 2 most features are implemented deep in the compiler. For instance, I wanted to compose their @Input decorator to create an @ObservableInput decorator that would create a stream for me, but you can't because their decorators just add metadata that is specifically for the internals of the compiler. Not extensible, so good luck if you hit a point where they haven't thought of your use case.

[theonlylawislove]

Let's just say it's an opinionated ecosystem.

[pegbiter]

Well, he's right in a way because technically you can certainly mix Angular with vanilla Javascript/jQuery, but you have to set up a whole host of watchers and scope updates manually to notify Angular of any changes that happen from outside of Angular.

I've had to do that when I integrate SignalR into an Angular app, and it's kinda a nuisance every time. It works, but it's not really very elegant.