AngularJS vs Closure Library

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AngularJS

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Followers44.5K

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GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Closure Library

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Followers50

Votes0

GitHub Stars4.9K

Forks1.1K

AngularJS vs Closure Library: What are the differences?

Introduction

AngularJS and Closure Library are two popular JavaScript frameworks that are used to build web applications. While they both have their own strengths and weaknesses, there are some key differences between the two. In this article, we will explore six of these differences in detail.

Architecture and Design Philosophy: AngularJS follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern, which separates the application logic, data, and presentation. On the other hand, Closure Library follows a modular and component-based design philosophy, where reusable components and libraries are used to build applications.
Data Binding: AngularJS provides two-way data binding, which means that any changes made in the model are automatically reflected in the view, and vice versa. Closure Library, on the other hand, uses a more manual approach to data binding, where the developer has to explicitly update the view when the model changes.
Dependency Injection: AngularJS has built-in support for dependency injection, where the dependencies of a component are injected into it at runtime. This helps in creating loosely coupled and testable code. Closure Library, on the other hand, does not have built-in support for dependency injection, and developers have to manually handle dependencies.
Templates: AngularJS uses HTML templates to define the view and data binding. It provides a set of directives that can be used to extend the functionality of HTML. Closure Library, on the other hand, does not have a specific templating system. Instead, it encourages the use of the Closure Templates library, which provides a powerful and efficient templating solution.
Size and Performance: AngularJS is a larger framework compared to Closure Library. This is because AngularJS includes many built-in features and functionalities out of the box, which makes it easier to get started with. Closure Library, on the other hand, is a more lightweight framework and is known for its performance and efficiency.
Community and Ecosystem: AngularJS has a large and active community, with many resources and libraries available for developers. It also has a rich ecosystem of third-party tools and frameworks that can be used with it. Closure Library, on the other hand, has a smaller community compared to AngularJS, but it is still actively maintained by Google and has a growing ecosystem.

In summary, AngularJS and Closure Library differ in their architecture and design philosophy, approach to data binding, dependency injection, templating, size and performance, as well as the size and activity of their communities and ecosystems.

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Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

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Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

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

@{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| 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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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	Closure Library
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.	Closure Library is a powerful, low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. It is used by many Google web applications, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google+, Google Maps, and others.
-	cross-browser functions for DOM manipulations and events, Ajax and JSON; high-level objects such as User Interface widgets and Controls
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 4.9K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 1.1K
Stacks 61.5K	Stacks 28
Followers 44.5K	Followers 50
Votes 5.3K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 889 Quick to develop 589 Great mvc 573 Powerful 520 Restful 505 Backed by google Cons 12 Complex 4 Dependency injection 3 Event Listener Overload 2 Learning Curve 2 Hard to learn	No community feedback yet
Integrations
JavaScript	Closure Compiler

What are some alternatives to AngularJS, Closure Library?

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.

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

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.

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AngularJS vs Closure Library: What are the differences?

Introduction

Architecture and Design Philosophy: AngularJS follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern, which separates the application logic, data, and presentation. On the other hand, Closure Library follows a modular and component-based design philosophy, where reusable components and libraries are used to build applications.
Data Binding: AngularJS provides two-way data binding, which means that any changes made in the model are automatically reflected in the view, and vice versa. Closure Library, on the other hand, uses a more manual approach to data binding, where the developer has to explicitly update the view when the model changes.
Dependency Injection: AngularJS has built-in support for dependency injection, where the dependencies of a component are injected into it at runtime. This helps in creating loosely coupled and testable code. Closure Library, on the other hand, does not have built-in support for dependency injection, and developers have to manually handle dependencies.
Templates: AngularJS uses HTML templates to define the view and data binding. It provides a set of directives that can be used to extend the functionality of HTML. Closure Library, on the other hand, does not have a specific templating system. Instead, it encourages the use of the Closure Templates library, which provides a powerful and efficient templating solution.
Size and Performance: AngularJS is a larger framework compared to Closure Library. This is because AngularJS includes many built-in features and functionalities out of the box, which makes it easier to get started with. Closure Library, on the other hand, is a more lightweight framework and is known for its performance and efficiency.
Community and Ecosystem: AngularJS has a large and active community, with many resources and libraries available for developers. It also has a rich ecosystem of third-party tools and frameworks that can be used with it. Closure Library, on the other hand, has a smaller community compared to AngularJS, but it is still actively maintained by Google and has a growing ecosystem.

AngularJS vs Closure Library

Overview

AngularJS vs Closure Library: What are the differences?