Preface

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."                                                                                                      -Mike Tyson, undisputed heavyweight champion boxer

Soon after its creation in 2009, AngularJS grew into a widely popular foundational tool for building frontend applications. As years and releases went by, and the JavaScript community matured, the world of client-side programming broadened beyond what Angular was originally designed for. Its caretakers took stock and decided that a sweeping overhaul of the framework was in order.

AngularJS, now Angular 1, still exists and will be supported for the years to come, but in its wake lies Angular 2—a wholly different animal built for ...

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