Chapter 2: AngularJS and Angular: a Detailed Comparison

by Manjunath M

This article compares the major differences between the the original AngularJS and Angular. If you’re currently stuck with an AngularJS project and not sure whether you should make the jump, this article should help you get started.

In recent years, we’ve seen Angular grow tremendously as a framework and as a platform for developing single page applications (SPAs) and progressive web apps (PWAs). AngularJS was built on top of the idea that declarative programming should be used for building the views. This required decoupling the DOM manipulation from the business logic of the application and the approach had many benefits on its own.

However, AngularJS had many shortcomings ...

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