Things I Wish I Were Told About Angular.js

Recently I have worked on a project using Angular.js. As of writing this post, it’s a medium sized app (~10 modules, ~20 controllers, ~5 services and ~10 directives) with quite decent test coverage. When I look back, I find myself learning much more about Angular.js than before. It’s not a smooth ride: I’ve gone through lots of refactor and rewrite. And there are lots of things I wish I were told before I started to work on Angular.js Heads up! About Learning Curve Angular.js has a very different learning curve from Backbone.js. However, Angular.js is very different. The problem is when you dive into Angular.js and start to write some serious app, the learning curve suddenly becomes very steep and its documentations are either incomplete or cumbersome. Understand Modules Before You Start Angular.js does not force you to use its module system. So I had to stop and refactor my code. So if you do not want to go through the refactor, learn and plan your modules before you start. About Testing

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Animation in AngularJS by Gias Kay Lee in AngularJS.tw Meetup #2 Gias Kay Lee How people still do today $('div').animate({ opacity: 0.25 .fade { transition: 1s; opacity: 0.25; Put Presentational Details Back to Where They Belong .fade { transition: 1s; opacity: 0.25; $('button').click(function() { $('div').addClass('fade'); ie. Separation of Concerns Performance is Better .fade { transition: 1s; transform: translateZ(0); opacity: 0.25; Wait... What about... cross-browser support? Sexy and robust. can see CSS3 animation as of May 2013 More good news! IE10 is seriously pwning IE9! wOOt! Beginning of Auto-upgrade ⬇ So that leaves roughly 10% of users still at large but, please lemme tell you this... Hope Linus won't mind me borrowing this wonderful shot to convey my idea. Do you know that... of mobile web users still come from feature phones and other primitive devices? So why would you care... whether IE8 users could see your fancy animations the and