What Is AngularJS?

AngularJS is a client-side framework developed by Google. It is written in JavaScript with a reduced jQuery library called jQuery lite. The entire ideology behind AngularJS is to provide a framework that makes it easy to implement well-designed and well-structured web pages and applications using an MVC framework.

AngularJS provides all that functionality to handle user input in the browser, manipulate data on the client side, and control how elements are displayed in the browser view. Here are some of the benefits AngularJS provides:

■ Data Binding: AngularJS has a very clean method to bind data to HTML elements using its powerful scope mechanism.

■ Extensibility: The AngularJS architecture enables you to easily extend almost every aspect of the language to provide your own custom implementations.

■ Clean: AngularJS forces you to write clean, logical code.

■ Reusable Code: The combination of extensibility and clean code makes it very easy to write reusable code in AngularJS. In fact, the language often forces you to do so when you’re creating custom services.

■ Support: Google is investing a lot into this project, which gives it an advantage where other similar initiatives have failed.

■ Compatibility: AngularJS is based on JavaScript and has a close relationship with jQuery. That makes it easier to begin integrating AngularJS into your environment and reuse pieces of your existing code within the structure of the AngularJS framework.