Backend Folks’ take on Angular JS
Many Backend developers make great use of various application frameworks out there.Given the various kinds of backend frameworks available, web developers have options as to which type of framework they would like to interact from UI standpoint or any frontend framework for that matter. Though there are many frameworks that are very popular some time ago but it becomes more untrendy while the popularity of AngularJS rapidly grows.
As the User Interface is completely moving to the client-side (browser-based), the server-side logic becomes simpler. Moreover, back-end folks (server-side developers) do not have to worry about how to build HTML pages using templates to generate the dynamic content. Rather, they may focus more on optimizing business logic and data persistence using Datastore access and OAuth2 authentication – which then can be exposed as services to client-side.
To better understand the dominance of Angular JS, let’s explore in deep to outline and know why it has become the future wave in developers perspective.
How Java developers are seeing Angular?
AngularJS is mostly popular among companies that builds applications on Java Stack because it makes lots of things easy. After experimenting different javascript frameworks and libraries, most of the Java developers decided to stick with Angular JS. The learning curve of AngularJS is not too steep for Java developers, when it comes to understanding the concepts of containers, dependency injections,and callbacks. They find some similarities in Angular because of their background in Spring/Hibernate. They may have to become more proficient with JavaScript functions, closures and other ‘good’ stuff. But equally important is to be familiar with today’s tooling of a productive Web developer.
Also, JSF and JSP are two technologies that have been widely used to communicate and interact with application up until now. They have been using Java server to exchange the JSON-formatted data with a single-page HTML/JavaScript front end treating the browser only as a rendering platform with no state. Later many moved to other frameworks like AngularJS, as it does most of the stuff Ajax does, and browser technologies were not something that could be avoided, rather used to full capacity to build a ‘client-app’’ than mere ‘web page’.. So many Java Developers started to utilize Angular similar to the power and ease of JSF’s server side data binding, while still being able to unleash the power of client side Javascript.
AngularJS and .NET Developers:
Creating single page apps with Angular and ASP.Net gives developers a great start. Both of them together are compatible to MVC framework with the only difference being, while one is a client side validation (AngularJS) the other favors server side validation (ASP.Net). Senior developers are excited to use AngularJS to make more responsive client side applications with a clear Separation of Concerns (SoC). Many of them are excited to leverage the combination of AngularJS and MVC in order to provide amazing user experiences.
PHP/Python developers view on AngularJS:
Most PHP & Python developers know some level of Angular JS and are in favor of using a Angular MVC framework. Angular MVC frameworks are used for rapid development, many include templating engines which allow PHP developers to create a single page layout which will load different content depending on what page you have visited. Many PHP/Python developers agree that if they are building an application with AngularJS, they must focus on using Angular client-side templates and stay away from server-side templates to avoid incorrect rendering (with Flask/Jinja templates interruption).
Learning curve:
Although AngularJS seemed to be quite new initially, it stood out from the rest with its extensive documentation, its two-way binding, built-in support for unit testing, and clean MVC implementation. Additionally, it lets developers get things done with minimal amount of JavaScript. Many feel AngularJS to be really easy to get started with its new features coming up with and few find it bit difficult when coming from other programming backgrounds. But fortunately, all the tools are quite easy to use along with being lightweight and agile.
Angular attention:
Angular has got huge adoption and fervent support from the community. It gets developers excited on developer productivity, simplicity and clearness in getting things done,without having to spend hours writing a graphical user interface entirely from scratch.