I think anyone who knows Angular well would agree - it's a joy to work with, but it isn't perfect. Angular 2.0 is a step in the right direction in many ways.

I think anyone who knows Angular well would agree - it's a joy to work with, but it isn't perfect. Angular 2.0 is a step in the right direction in many ways. This blog post is pretty horrid though. I find myself moving more of my code into pure JS & borrowing concepts from languages like Java (interfaces, abstract classes, etc.) to increase agility in the event I want to move towards using a different library/framework. I gave a talk related to this idea of a frontend SOA about a week ago - here are the slides: http://slides.com/wesleycho/soa-angular http://slides.com/wesleycho/soa-angular