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Angular 2 vs Aurelia: What are the differences?

Developers describe Angular 2 as "One framework. Mobile & desktop". Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications. On the other hand, Aurelia is detailed as "Next gen JS framework written with ES6 and ES7. Integrates with Web Components. No external dependencies except polyfills". Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

Angular 2 and Aurelia can be categorized as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.

"It's a powerful framework" is the primary reason why developers consider Angular 2 over the competitors, whereas "Simple with conventions" was stated as the key factor in picking Aurelia.

Angular 2 and Aurelia are both open source tools. It seems that Angular 2 with 49.5K GitHub stars and 13.5K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Aurelia with 11.1K GitHub stars and 665 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Angular 2 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 259 company stacks & 237 developers stacks; compared to Aurelia, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

Decisions about Angular and Aurelia
Dennis Ziolkowski
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I was first sceptical about using Angular over AngularJS. That's because AngularJS was so easy to integrate in existing websites. But building apps from scratch with Angular is so much easier. Of course, you have to build and boilerplate them first, but after that - you save a ton of time. Also it's very cozy to write code in TypeScript.

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Julius alvarado

It is a complete waste of time and life to learn a different framework to solve the same problem (Both AngularJS and Angular build A+ UI's, but both require a lot of time to learn). It's dumb to spend 200 hours learning AngularJS, then 200 hours learning Angular when you could spend 200 hours learning AngularJS and 200 hours learning how to solve a different problem (like AI/ML, Data Science, AR/VR, Digital Marketing, etc.)

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Kyle Harrison
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When deciding on a front end framework to build my bitcoin faucet project, I knew I needed something battle hardened, dependedable, but also feature filled and ready to go out of the box.

While I've written some smaller apps with ng2+, I've never gone full tilt with it so I knew there were still some things to learn, and most importantly: how to do them properly, such as proper component architecture and breaking old habbits from ng1.

I didn't opt for React in this case, simply due to the need to stack more and more things on top of it to do what I'd need it to do. I wanted a framework that was going to take over routing and execution of complex UI controls, and keep items outside of a component's scope updated and react to events. This framework needed a comprehensive event emission system, data acquisition and handling, bi-directional data binding, state, and a series of things that you'd need to install separately for React to match up to what's already in the box with Angular.

I opted to stick to Angular instead of Vue for the fact that Angular also already has it's entire build system ready to go and comprehensivly built to deliver the tiniest version of it's deliverable. I was hosting this thing in a google cloud instance, so I needed to make sure the app stayed as small as possible, and could automatically trim out the cruft. This is where Angular's built in Tree Shaking took precedence for me.

Vue is more than capable of handling everything I'd need, and it was something I took serious considerion of. For instance, Vue poweres Cointiply, another bitcoin faucet application that's highly reactive and high componentized just like I wanted.

But I'd still need to learn Vue, I'd still need to configure it's build system, and I still wanted to use SCSS and TypeScript.

So Angular it was. ng8 is a great platform for building very complex user interfaces, and has many of the problems you'd inevitably face integrating a user interface to an application already figured out, and complete with a best practice recommendation.

React and Vue, given enough time and energy, are super capable platforms. No one can deny that. Angular's "A-Z Batteries Included" approach to the whole development process is what made it especially enticing this time.

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Pros of Angular
Pros of Aurelia
  • 109
    It's a powerful framework
  • 53
    Straight-forward architecture
  • 48
    TypeScript
  • 45
    Great UI and Business Logic separation
  • 40
    Powerful, maintainable, fast
  • 39
    Amazing CLI
  • 33
    Great mvc
  • 29
    Powerfull Dependency Injection
  • 19
    Easy to build
  • 16
    All in one Framework
  • 15
    Opinionated, batteries-included approach
  • 11
    Schematics
  • 10
    Solid Standard Setup.
  • 8
    Structured
  • 7
    Performance
  • 5
    Complex
  • 4
    Only for single page applications
  • 3
    Builders
  • 2
    RxJS
  • 2
    Ng upgrade
  • 1
    React
  • 47
    Simple with conventions
  • 42
    Modern architecture
  • 39
    Makes sense and is mostly javascript not framework
  • 31
    Extensible
  • 28
    Integrates well with other components
  • 27
    Easy to use
  • 25
    Dependency Injection
  • 22
    Modular
  • 20
    Great router
  • 16
    Adaptive Data Binding
  • 13
    Typescript, ES2015, ES2016
  • 11
    IoC, Modularity, Simplicity, Full Stack
  • 9
    Good binding system
  • 9
    Based on ES7
  • 6
    Testable
  • 6
    Convention based
  • 5
    Quick to develop
  • 4
    Solid Documentation
  • 4
    Evolving standards compliance
  • 4
    Smooth learning curve
  • 4
    Outstanding Support (paid)
  • 1
    Reactive binding system
  • 1
    TypeScript

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Cons of Angular
Cons of Aurelia
  • 9
    Overcomplicated
  • 9
    Large overhead in file size and initialization time
  • 2
    Ugly code
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    CLI not open to other test and linting tools
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    What is Angular?

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

    What is Aurelia?

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

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    What are some alternatives to Angular and Aurelia?
    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.
    Polymer
    Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.
    Vue.js
    It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
    Meteor
    A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.
    Knockout
    It is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), it can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.
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