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Ampersand.js vs AngularJS: What are the differences?

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1. Templating System: Ampersand.js utilizes Mustache.js for its templating system, focusing on separation of concerns by keeping data and presentation separate. On the other hand, AngularJS has its template engine integrated within the framework, providing two-way data binding for real-time updates between the view and model.

2. Size and Complexity: AngularJS is a full-fledged framework with built-in features for routing, animations, form validation, and more, making it suitable for complex single-page applications. In contrast, Ampersand.js is a smaller and more lightweight library, requiring developers to integrate additional packages or plugins for extended functionalities.

3. Data Binding: AngularJS provides two-way data binding out of the box, allowing changes in the model to reflect automatically in the view and vice versa. Ampersand.js, on the other hand, focuses on one-way data binding by default, requiring manual updates to synchronize changes between the model and view components.

4. Community Support: AngularJS has a larger and more active community compared to Ampersand.js, resulting in extensive documentation, tutorials, and third-party plugins readily available for developers. Ampersand.js, while well-maintained, may have limited community support and resources in comparison.

5. Learning Curve: Due to its comprehensive feature set and syntax structure, AngularJS can have a steeper learning curve for beginners or developers transitioning from other frameworks. Ampersand.js, with its minimalist approach and clear separation of concerns, may be easier to grasp for those looking for a simpler, more modular solution.

6. Flexibility and Extensibility: Ampersand.js promotes a more flexible and modular approach, allowing developers to pick and choose specific modules based on their project requirements. On the other hand, AngularJS provides a more opinionated framework structure, which can limit flexibility but streamlines development for standardized applications.

In Summary, Ampersand.js and AngularJS differ in templating system, size and complexity, data binding, community support, learning curve, and flexibility and extensibility.

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Laravel is so very friendly in coding in backend and has a good documentation and easy to understand. It's also easy and rapid to create application on this framework. The community is also big where you can get a lot of other solutions from other developers. Same as well in Vue Js, its lightweight and very fast to compile and load. The coding is very well structured and clean. PHP has now also the features of strict type rules and Vue Js too since it's now support Typescript.

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Francesco Boffa

We are heavy Rails users. As such, whenever possible, we try to use plain javascript, HTML views, and tons of partials.

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There is absolutely no way we could have built what we have without a good UI framework.

I had worked with an old version of Angular and I still get shivers any time I recall that jig. Ultimately we preferred React over Vue, Preact and any other framework for a simple reason: maintenance.

Being backed by a mega corporation like Facebook, we know that problems will be fixed, performances will keep improving and that while best practices will shift, our codebase will ultimately benefit from that change.

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We choose React for our client-side implementation because of React's virtual DOM implementation and component rendering optimization. It can help our app to be more stable and easier to debug. Also, react has strong support from the dev community. There is an enormous amount of reacting libraries we could use, which will speed up our development process.

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Kamaleshwar BN
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It was easier to find people who've worked on React than Vue. Angular did not have this problem, but seemed way too bloated compared to React. Angular also brings in restrictions working within their MVC framework. React on the other hand only handles the view/rendering part and rest of the control is left to the developers. React has a very active community, support and has lots of ready-to-use plugins/libraries available.

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It is a very versatile library that provides great development speed. Although, with a bad organization, maintaining projects can be a disaster. With a good architecture, this does not happen.

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I used React not just because it is more popular than Angular. But the declarative and composition it gives out of the box is fascinating and React.js is just a very small UI library and you can build anything on top of it.

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    npm
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    Open source
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    Dependency injection
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    Readable
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    Directives
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    Great community
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    Extend html vocabulary
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    Efficient
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    High performance
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    Easy to e2e
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    Clean and keeps code readable
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    One of the best frameworks
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    Easy for small applications
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    Works great with jquery
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    Fast development
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    I do not touch DOM
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    The two-way Data Binding is awesome
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    Hierarchical Data Structure
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    Be a developer, not a plumber.
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    Very very useful and fast framework for development
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    Readable code
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    Programming fun again
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    What is Ampersand.js?

    We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. We wanted something similar in style and philosophy, but that fully embraced tiny modules, npm, and browserify. Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules.

    What is AngularJS?

    AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

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