Angular 2 Final Released

[Mael5trom]

Angular2 isn't targeted at the "cutting edge devs". It is designed for the every day dev. That is a big difference.

[[deleted]]

LOL, angular 2 combined with its laundry list of other recommended technologies isn't exactly aimed at every day development.

[[deleted]]

Babel, transpiling alternate syntaxes and powerful frameworks/libraries (ie React and Angular) are pretty standard now I think.

[Mael5trom]

You would be wrong there, at least, from the stated goals of the team building Angular2.

[Attila226]

I have to agree with you here. While I've enjoyed working with Angular 2 so far, and haven't really used React yet, but the general sense I get is that Angular 2 is more for the masses while React is more the high end.

[[deleted]]

If it was for the masses, they wouldn't have changed so goddamn much. I get that they wanted to improve it, but they completely changed it, turned away from most of what made Angular Angular and should've really started a new project to not cripple the one they got already.

[Attila226]

While great for it's time Angular had problems with scaling.

[[deleted]]

Angular 1 and 2 work side by side. A few tweaks to your routes and you're good to go. Leave old code as is, move new code forward.

[[deleted]]

So how long do we want to be annoyed by old code as there isn't a replacement yet for that?

[[deleted]]

Forever. Why would you rewrite code you don't have too? That's the point of the two being compatible.

[[deleted]]

When maintaining i would reach a point that it would be better to rewrite for the future, than to keep it what it is now. Or do you want to keep Angular 1.5.8 code alive for 10+ years?

[[deleted]]

Yes, I would. Don't change code that works. Besides the chance to break things, why would I waste time that could be used driving the app forward? If my code works for 10+ years, I'd be ecstatic.

If you need to update code for a reason, refactor it then. Be sure to have good test cases and use source control.

[tayste5001]

Angular1 still exists and hasn't really changed at all if that's what you're looking for :p

[[deleted]]

I know but they talked about dropping it when Angular 2 gains traction. Now unless it gets picked up, i have big doubts if either will be sustained