How to make your Angular project more attractive

Most frameworks nowadays are simply a bundling of existing tools. They are an integrated toolset, but not very elegant. Angular is the next generation framework where each tool was designed to work with every other tool in an interconnected way.

What is Angular?

Angular is probably one of the most popular modern day web frameworks available today. Angular is a platform that makes it easy to build applications with the web. Angular combines declarative templates, dependency injection, an end to end tooling, and integrated best practices to solve development challenges. Angular empowers developers to build applications that live on the web, mobile, or the desktop. AngularJS is an open source Model-View-Controller framework which is similar to the JavaScript framework.

Angular makes your project more attractive

Angular has the following key features which make it one of the powerful frameworks in the market.

Model-View-Controller

The framework is built on the famous concept of MVC (Model-View-Controller). This is a design pattern used in all modern day web applications. This pattern is based on splitting the business logic layer, the data layer, and presentation layer into separate sections. The division into different sections is done so that each one could be managed more easily. Most frameworks implement MVC by asking you to split your app into MVC components, then require you to write code to string them up together again. That’s a lot of work. Angular implements MVC by asking you to split your app into MVC components, then just let Angular do the rest. Angular manages your components for you and also serves as the pipeline that connects them. Because Angular acts as the mediator, developers also won’t feel tempted to write shortcuts between components that break abstractions just to make them fit easier.

Data Model Binding

You don't need to write special code to bind data to the HTML controls. This can be done by Angular by just adding a few snippets of code.

Writing less code

When carrying out DOM manipulation a lot of JavaScript was required to be written to design any application. But with Angular, you will be amazed by the lesser amount of code you need to write for DOM manipulation.

Unit Testing ready

The designers at Google not only developed Angular but also developed a testing framework called "Karma" which helps in designing unit tests for AngularJS applications.

Two-way binding

Angular keeps the data and presentation layer in sync. Now you don't need to write additional JavaScript code to keep the data in your HTML code and your data later in sync. Angular will automatically do this for you. You just need to specify which control is bound to which part of your model.

Routing

Angular can take care of routing which means moving from one view to another. This is the key fundamental of single page applications; wherein you can move to different functionalities in your web application based on user interaction but still stay on the same page.

User Interface

Angular uses HTML to define the app’s user interface. HTML is a declarative language which is more intuitive and less convoluted than defining the interface procedurally in JavaScript. HTML is also less brittle to reorganize than an interface written in JavaScript, meaning things are less likely to break. Plus you can bring in many more UI developers when the view is written in HTML.

Unit testing

Angular unit tests are able to usurp DI to perform unit testing by injecting mock data into your controller and measuring the output and behavior. In fact, Angular already has a mock HTTP provider to inject fake server responses into controllers.

Communication

The PubSub system in Angular is precisely that. broadcast() will send a message to all children controllers, while emit() will send a message to all ancestors. But PubSub isn’t the only way to communicate between controllers. In fact, if all you’re doing is telling other controllers to update their views when a property changes, you should be relying on data-binding.

Speed & Performance

Angular puts you in control over scalability. Meet huge data requirements by building data models on RxJS, Immutable.js or another push-model.

Some common AngularJS directives include -

• ng-show and ng-hide - these directives show or hide an element. This is achieved by setting styles in the site’s CSS.

• ng-class - this allows class attributes to be dynamically loaded.

• ng-animate - this directive provides support for animation, including Javascript, CSS3 transitions, and CSS3 keyframe animations.

 

AngularJS already has the ability to handle your project’s wireframes during initial development and testing, as well as other demands like animations and transitions for powerful websites and web applications.