AngularJS vs Angular | What are the differences?

Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.8K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Angular

Stacks2.0K

Followers4.8K

Votes499

GitHub Stars99.2K

Forks26.7K

Angular 2 vs AngularJS: What are the differences?

What is Angular 2? One framework. Mobile & desktop. Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

What is AngularJS? Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework. 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.

Angular 2 and AngularJS belong to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

"It's a powerful framework" is the primary reason why developers consider Angular 2 over the competitors, whereas "Quick to develop" was stated as the key factor in picking AngularJS.

Angular 2 and AngularJS are both open source tools. It seems that AngularJS with 59.6K GitHub stars and 28.9K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Angular 2 with 49.5K GitHub stars and 13.5K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, AngularJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2799 company stacks & 1860 developers stacks; compared to Angular 2, which is listed in 259 company stacks and 237 developer stacks.

Advice on AngularJS, Angular

Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

Nuxt.js consisting of Vue CLI, Vue Router, vuex, Webpack and Sass (Bundler for HTML5, CSS 3), Babel (Transpiler for JavaScript),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed Vue.js components
Vuetify as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
TypeScript as programming language
Apollo / GraphQL (incl. GraphiQL) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
ESLint, TSLint and Prettier for coding style and code analyzes
Jest as testing framework
Google Fonts and Font Awesome for typography and icon toolkit
NativeScript-Vue for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

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Comments

John Clifford

Software Engineer at CircleYY

Jun 8, 2020

Decided

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.

Composing components is the strongest asset of React for me as it can breakdown your application into smaller pieces which makes it easy to reuse and scale.

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José

Head of Engineering & Development at Chiper

Jun 23, 2020

Decided

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.

Angular is obviously powerful and robust. I do not rule it out for any future application, in fact with the arrival of micro frontends and cross-functional teams I think it could be useful. However, if I have to build a stack from scratch again, I'm left with react.

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Detailed Comparison

AngularJS	Angular
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.	It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.
-	Progressive Web Apps; Native; Code Generation; Code Splitting
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 99.2K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 26.7K
Stacks 61.8K	Stacks 2.0K
Followers 44.5K	Followers 4.8K
Votes 5.3K	Votes 499
Pros & Cons
Pros 889 Quick to develop 589 Great mvc 573 Powerful 520 Restful 505 Backed by google Cons 12 Complex 3 Event Listener Overload 3 Dependency injection 2 Hard to learn 2 Learning Curve	Pros 109 It's a powerful framework 53 Straight-forward architecture 48 TypeScript 45 Great UI and Business Logic separation 40 Powerful, maintainable, fast Cons 9 Large overhead in file size and initialization time 9 Overcomplicated 2 Ugly code 2 CLI not open to other test and linting tools
Integrations
JavaScript	Bugsnag Firebase Sentry Socket.IO

What are some alternatives to AngularJS, Angular?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Aurelia

Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.