Yeap. I just coded a big client side, generic interface using angular, and i never really felt the need to understand the differences between factory, service a

Yeap. I just coded a big client side, generic interface using angular, and i never really felt the need to understand the differences between factory, service and providers ( which i do now thanks to the article). Seems to me all those patterns should more be seen as framework internals rather than end-user features. The user side of angular really remains very light. Nothing like java spring for example.