Why AngularJS Changes Everything

A bit OT, but somewhat relevant:<p>I like Angular, but I also find that in many cases it&#x27;s pretty heavy weight for me. I&#x27;ve been working on a library that lets you add AJAX to your app w&#x2F;o any javascript, using HTML attributes, REST-ful bindings and the Basecamp2 content-swapping approach:<p><a href="http://intercoolerjs.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoolerjs.org&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s not designed to be a be-all-end-all javascript library, but it lets you tactically AJAX-ify your app in high value places without a lot of complexity.<p>Here&#x27;s a (crappy) demo I threw up:<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/85881209" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;85881209</a><p>It&#x27;s in early alpha, but if anyone is interested, please fork and ping me. Lots of interesting stuff to implement still.

I imagine the discussion at these big companies goes thusly:<p>Programmer: &quot;I&#x27;d like to use Ember.js to build our new tablet app.&quot;<p>Manager: &quot;Who built Ember.js? Who supports it? Where did it come from?&quot;<p>Programmer: &quot;Tilde, Inc.&quot;<p>Manager: &quot;No dice.&quot;<p>... one month later ...<p>Programmer: &quot;Okay, I&#x27;ve been playing with AngularJS and--&quot;<p>Manager: &quot;Who built it?&quot;<p>Programmer&quot; &quot;Google is leading development.&quot;<p>Manager: &quot;Perfect, I&#x27;d like to see 500 LOC fully tested by next week and a shippable app in two months, though I expect we&#x27;ll let that slip one or 14 months if we have to.&quot;

I hope Angular never become the &quot;futur&quot; of front-end. I pride myself making reusable, simple, opmised, clean code for entreprisey apps. Some frameworks fit well in this mentality.<p>Angular does not. It&#x27;s an awkward black box.<p>I can open the source code of backbone &amp; understand everything it&#x27;s doing. Using a simpler stack makes the code more timeless, any competent js dev is able to continue my work. Pretty sure you can&#x27;t say the same with your angular app.

I too have noticed some conservative institutions looking into or already switching to using AngularJS, such as banks, and some areas of the federal government.<p>I, for one, am glad to embrace my new frontend overlord.

I have a theory about that google trends graph: the more confusing and fragmented your documentation, the more google searches you generate.

&gt; They all told the same story: their bosses were directing entire dev teams to switch to Angular. [...] It was actually being mandated from the <i>top down</i>, changing job requirements almost overnight.<p>It makes me wonder who is convincing the managers, then, if not the developers that actually have to build the software?<p>And are developers embracing AngularJS because it is now becoming a marketable skill that hiring managers are looking to fill, or because of its own merits?

I&#x27;ve been building an angular app for a few months now I must admit that angular is great, but the learning curve is too steep.

TL;DR: Anecdotes from an angular conference, garden variety hyperbole, contrived google trends chart.

can confirm ! am architect at at a major Canadian bank and AngularJS is our preferred UI framework , even over JSF and that is a big deal for all java shops.

how did that post even address its title? let alone warrant a single HN upvote?