What is Angular?

• A TypeScript-based open-source web application framework
• A platform and framework for building single-page client applications using HTML and TypeScript
• Angular is written in TypeScript and it implements core and optional functionality as a set of TypeScript libraries that you import into your apps

Notes:

• Angular is created for enterprise-scale applications
• Angular is verbose and complex
• Steep learning curve

Angular vs AngularJS

• AngularJS is written in JavaScript, while Angular (Angular 2+) are written in TypeScript
  • AngularJS is the first version, and later versions are re-written in TypeScript and re-named as Angular
  • In September 2016, Google released Angular 2. It was a complete rewrite of a framework by the same team, matching the increasingly modern requirements of the web. The Angular community is split between AngularJS and modern Angular
• Angular is component-based, while AngularJS uses directives
• More
  • https://www.simplilearn.com/angularjs-vs-angular-2-vs-angular-4-differences-article
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34114593/angularjs-vs-angular

Why to use?

• Develop across all platform (web, mobile web, native mobile and native desktop)
• Achieve the maximum speed possible on the Web Platform today, and take it further, via Web Workers and server-side rendering
• Component-based architecture that provides a higher quality of code
  • Reusability
  • Readability
  • Unit-test friendly
  • Maintainability
• Better tooling, cleaner code, and higher scalability with TypeScript
• Efficient, asynchronous programming with RxJS
• The platform-agnostic philosophy
• Angular Material streamlines Material Design interface engineering
• Powerful ecosystem