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We've been using A2 since RC3, and are approaching a GA of the product. Everyone on the dev team has had a positive impression when using it, but those who kne

We've been using A2 since RC3, and are approaching a GA of the product. Everyone on the dev team has had a positive impression when using it, but those who knew Angular1 had some "relearning" to do. A final observation - the adoption of Typescript turned out to be less painful and more fulfilling than anyone of us expected!

mikevm 10y ago
Which additional tools would you recommend to combine with AngularJS if you are targetting a web app for both desktop and mobile?
- ben_jones 10y ago
  Not GP but ionic is really solid. It helps to think of it mostly as a CSS framework with a tool chain for deployment and testing. Theres also a lot of examples and a pretty big community around angular + ionic.
  - mikevm 10y ago
    Thanks. I haven't done webdev in many many years so all the new front-end & back-end frameworks are a bit overwhelming. One thing I haven't decided yet is what to use to build the "pre-login pages". The SPA itself will be only accessible after a login page, but before login there will be a bunch of pages (Home/Blog/Help/etc..). Should I use Angular for those pages as well?
    - ben_jones 10y ago
      The convention is usually to serve the SPA via a CDN regardless of server side authentication and then have client-side routing prohibit users from rendering authenticated pages. This assumes data is authenticated/authorized within a server side api and no privileged information is in client-side code (it never should). In angular this is usually achieved by watching for state/route change events and deducing whether or not a route should be redirected or allowed to progress based on the status of the currentUser. It sounds a little hairy but in my experience there are ample resources detailing the process and realistically it's about ~30 LOC.
- ergo14 10y ago
  Cant say its "additional" but Polymer + it's material design components work great on both desktop and mobile.

mikevm 10y ago

Which additional tools would you recommend to combine with AngularJS if you are targetting a web app for both desktop and mobile?

ben_jones 10y ago
Not GP but ionic is really solid. It helps to think of it mostly as a CSS framework with a tool chain for deployment and testing. Theres also a lot of examples and a pretty big community around angular + ionic.
- mikevm 10y ago
  Thanks. I haven't done webdev in many many years so all the new front-end & back-end frameworks are a bit overwhelming. One thing I haven't decided yet is what to use to build the "pre-login pages". The SPA itself will be only accessible after a login page, but before login there will be a bunch of pages (Home/Blog/Help/etc..). Should I use Angular for those pages as well?
  - ben_jones 10y ago
    The convention is usually to serve the SPA via a CDN regardless of server side authentication and then have client-side routing prohibit users from rendering authenticated pages. This assumes data is authenticated/authorized within a server side api and no privileged information is in client-side code (it never should). In angular this is usually achieved by watching for state/route change events and deducing whether or not a route should be redirected or allowed to progress based on the status of the currentUser. It sounds a little hairy but in my experience there are ample resources detailing the process and realistically it's about ~30 LOC.
ergo14 10y ago
Cant say its "additional" but Polymer + it's material design components work great on both desktop and mobile.