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Terrence Miao

Terrence Miao - 2013-03-07 00:03:32+1100 - Updated: 2013-03-07 00:40:00+1100

Warning: The tech content in this article contains pure magic fucking awesomeness on environmentally friendly steroids

For years, web application developers have used DOM manipulation tools like jQuery to control their user interface. Astute developers have taken it to the next level with client-side templating tools like Mustache.js and Handlebars.js to build sophisticated user interfaces on the client side.

And then AngularJS came along.

And we all realized we’ve been doing it wrong.

Way wrong ...

AngularJS is too humble to say you’re doing it wrong

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Terrence Miao - 2013-03-07 00:11:40+1100 - Updated: 2013-03-07 11:00:40+1100

I haven't seen a Javascript framework, so seamlessly integrated with bloody messy HTML till I see AngularJS example. I haven't seen a Javascript framework makes client-side code so clean, so light, so adaptable, so beautiful, so much so I could officially announce "Java is so dead" ...

Terrence Miao - 2013-03-07 00:29:33+1100 - Updated: 2013-03-07 00:43:25+1100

+Dean Budd Code is NOT the design

Both are Javascript frameworks. Why AngularJS far over jQuery several blocks away?

Design.

Design can live without code. But code without design is just shitty code.

Code is the live demo, showcase of the design. People maybe don't understand the design, but after see the code most of they can give a judgement how good design is.

Design is a matter of taste. You can improve taste over time. Code is the cooked food on table. If you don't like, it's impossible and too late back to kitchen and re-cook the same food again. Game over.

Terrence Miao - 2013-03-07 00:36:48+1100 - Updated: 2013-03-07 00:44:45+1100

I feel I have had brain washed, damaged, I even feel I didn't use brain at all, I feel I'm a damned fool after using jQuery for so long time without questioning jQuery's design, without asking whether it's still possible to improve jQuery ...

Kieran Simpson - 2013-03-08 10:13:45+1100

AngularJS probably does tasks similar to what one would do with jQuery (does AngularJS use jQuery under the hood?). What's good is that you don't have to repeat the same steps to dynamically render content.

I was really impressed with this post.

Terrence Miao - 2013-03-08 10:43:53+1100

+Dean Budd Deano, any comments?

Dean Budd - 2013-03-08 10:56:42+1100

AngularJS looks awesome, but isn't it just a MVC-like Framework? It doesn't have any widget-library that I know of, so you'd have to either make JQuery (widgets) work within the AngularJS framework or create a whole new widget-library by hand.

That's my very limited understanding of the situation.

Dean Budd - 2013-03-08 10:57:48+1100

It sort of looks like JSP again, but rather than Java on the server filling in the blanks, Javascript does.

Terrence Miao - 2013-03-08 13:59:24+1100

If AngularJS or other MVC JavaScript framework can combine existing widget libraries, I can't provision the point of existing frameworks like Grails and Java mid-tier.

ALL web applications can be just written in JavaScript, and talk directly to the services layer in the cloud.