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Would be interesting to hear if you discovered any downsides to Angular. I've been working with it a lot lately, but it seems to be a really good solution and t

Would be interesting to hear if you discovered any downsides to Angular. I've been working with it a lot lately, but it seems to be a really good solution and the only issues with it is it can be hard to set up to be compatible with googlebot and the slightly tough learning curve

stevedomin 13y ago
We didn't look at all at SEO since it's our customer dashboard, we don't really care about it. Here's the few downsides of Angular IMO : - I'm particularly unhappy with the router, it does a good job but as soon as you start to have nested routes and complex layout, it you want to avoid copy-pasting the same bits of code everywhere it becomes a nightmare. We mitigated most of these issues by using a lot of directives but it doesn't solve the problem entirely. We looked at ui-router at some point but weren't totally satisfied by the way it worked. Maybe we should take another look. - errors are sometimes very obscure, it can be hard to debug, even if at some point you start to recognize some errors and know where to look first - docs could be better There are some other glitches here and there but most of the time Angular is a real pleasure to use, it's by far the best front-end framework I've worked with.
pseudobry 13y ago
Problems Angular doesn't solve for you: http://jmdobry.github.io/talks/2013/building-large-apps-with-angularjs/#/7 http://jmdobry.github.io/talks/2013/building-large-apps-with...
chaddeshon 13y ago
I made http://www.BromBone.com http://www.BromBone.com to help with the googlebot problem. I agree. The learning curve can be steep, but I've really enjoyed using Angular.
tlarkworthy 13y ago
SEO is the most annoying. You end up writing server side templates to mimic the client side templates just for the spiders benefits. Not a unique angular problem.

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Would be interesting to hear if you discovered any downsides to Angular. I've been working with it a lot lately, but it seems to be a really good solution and t

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stevedomin 13y ago
We didn't look at all at SEO since it's our customer dashboard, we don't really care about it. Here's the few downsides of Angular IMO : - I'm particularly unhappy with the router, it does a good job but as soon as you start to have nested routes and complex layout, it you want to avoid copy-pasting the same bits of code everywhere it becomes a nightmare. We mitigated most of these issues by using a lot of directives but it doesn't solve the problem entirely. We looked at ui-router at some point but weren't totally satisfied by the way it worked. Maybe we should take another look. - errors are sometimes very obscure, it can be hard to debug, even if at some point you start to recognize some errors and know where to look first - docs could be better There are some other glitches here and there but most of the time Angular is a real pleasure to use, it's by far the best front-end framework I've worked with.
pseudobry 13y ago
Problems Angular doesn't solve for you: http://jmdobry.github.io/talks/2013/building-large-apps-with-angularjs/#/7 http://jmdobry.github.io/talks/2013/building-large-apps-with...
chaddeshon 13y ago
I made http://www.BromBone.com http://www.BromBone.com to help with the googlebot problem. I agree. The learning curve can be steep, but I've really enjoyed using Angular.
tlarkworthy 13y ago
SEO is the most annoying. You end up writing server side templates to mimic the client side templates just for the spiders benefits. Not a unique angular problem.