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Alex Flores
7,864 PointsIs AngularJS worth learning? Need some advice from the seasoned.
Hello all,
I'm deciding on whether or not to learn AngularJS or if I should just start learning Angular2.0, even though it hasn't reached production. I've been reading a lot about the various frameworks and it seems like for all the praise there is for Angular, there's just as much criticism, especially for Angular2.0 as it seems they completely re-worked the language and that there will be no backwards compatibility with Angular 1.x.
This is a big concern for me, as I had planned to develop an app using the Ionic framework, which is run entirely on AngularJS. It almost seems pointless to learn AngularJS at this point, but I need it for Ionic, but if I learn it and start developing my app with Ionic what happens with 2.0 is released?
You're always told that technology moves fast and that you have to learn something new all the time, but I didn't realize they meant ENTIRE frameworks/languages would become obsolete within a 12 month period?! I don't know... Call it beginners shock, but that just seems insane. For the seasoned out there, how do you pick a new fledgling framework that will stand the test of time?
3 Answers
Corey Slaven
13,997 PointsHere is a YouTube video that I think will help answer the question that you have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFP6UDgVJtE
Alex Lewis
15,619 PointsLearning AngularJS is well worth the time. There are tons of enterprise level apps that have had their frontends built with angular. Many larger companies will probably start using Angular 2 sometime in late 2016 or 2017 for new projects. It's up to you which to learn (although I think you could get a pretty good grasp on both within 6 months).
You would be totally fine using Angular 1.x to develop the ionic app. Support for 1.x is going to be around for a while (just no new feature work or minor bug fixes).
Alex Flores
7,864 PointsThanks to both of you. It was good information.