Why Angular 2?

[MUSIC] 0:00 Hello there, I'm Andrew, a JavaScript developer and teacher here at TreeHouse. 0:04 Welcome to the Angular Basics course. 0:08 Angular is a platform by Google for developing client side applications. 0:11 Not only can angular applications target web browsers for 0:16 mobile and desktop devices. 0:20 You can also develop native apps for iOS, and Android devices using native script. 0:22 Angular has a large community of developers sharing what they're building 0:28 with the platform. 0:31 Angular Expo has many great examples of Angular applications. 0:32 The sound cloud app is an angular application that taps into the sound 0:37 cloud API. 0:41 It allows a user to set for an artist to track. 0:42 Fine tracks added by a specific user see of the track that the user has liked, and 0:46 basic playback controls to listen to a track. 0:50 Another angular application is the Echoes YouTube player. 0:56 The Echoes YouTube application allows you to search for, and play YouTube videos. 1:01 On the left of the screen there is a playlist. 1:06 When you click a video on the main pane it's added to your playlist. 1:09 At the bottom of the screen, you have the player back controls. 1:14 The application will even let you log in and 1:20 create playlists using your Google+ account. 1:23 In this course, we'll be building a photo blog application. 1:27 You'll learn how to retrieve and display information in an Angular application. 1:32 You'll also learn how to create simple forms for user input. 1:38 You may be asking, why should I learn the Angular platform? 1:45 Angular is modular and being modular, 1:48 you're in control of every piece of GUID you include in your application. 1:51 When your application is bundled and 1:54 ready to be sent off to the browser, it will ultimately be in it's simplest form, 1:56 reducing the time it takes to run the application. 2:00 In previous versions of Angular, 2:04 the full Angular framework was included with every application. 2:06 Angular is the first framework to leverage a statically typed version of JavaScript, 2:09 typescript. 2:14 Typescript a type super set of JavaScript lets developers move 2:15 quickly by keeping them in their Editor and focused on their code. 2:20 With static typing, you spend less time reading documentation and 2:23 more time building your application. 2:28 We'll discuss more about TypeScript later on. 2:30 Google has hundreds of internal applications built on Angular. 2:33 The internal teams that rely on the platform provide valuable feedback. 2:36 Also, the Angular team is very involved in the community. 2:41 Angular is an open source project with many contributors outside of Google. 2:44 It is a platform built by and for the community. 2:49 There is an important distinction between Angular JS And Angular. 2:53 Angular JS refers to Angular version 1. 2:57 And the JS has been dropped from version 2 onwards. 3:00 The removal of the JS was to show a clean break in the evolution 3:04 between Angular as a framework to become a new modern platform. 3:08 Angular can be used in many different scenarios now, not just web applications. 3:13 In this course, we'll not be covering Angular JS, but Angular, and 3:18 its modern approach to building clientside web applications. 3:23 Now that we've covered, why would one select an Angular? 3:27 Let's take a look at how Angular works. 3:30