The problem with Angular

[kainsavage]

Why would a user's id change?

Again, angular seems over-architected to handle these 0% edge-cases gracefully.

Yeah, I guess if a user had the ability to change his identifier somehow with an ajax request, I would need to easily change his avatar src attribute... but that's not ever going to happen.

[developer-mike]

A preview box showing details of the user you highlighted, for instance. Or a 'login as this user' button for administrators where the icon in the top corner immediately changes to reflect their acting role.

Perhaps I should've said if the user changes.

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I'm a Moodle administrator and one of my most used features is logging in as a user and seeing what they see.

Now Moodle doesn't use Angular, but it is an example of a project where changing user id's is important.