Continuing our series exploring different frontend development frameworks, we now turn our attention to one of the most popular, widely used and powerful frameworks for frontend development in the current age – AngularJS. Offered as a powerful open-source framework, it is widely used in the development of Single-page applications. Along with other frontend development frameworks like React and Vue, AngularJS has revolutionized the world of frontend development providing great ease, comfort and efficiency to developers all over the world as they seek to build better and more powerful applications on the internet.
The importance of frontend development cannot be overstated. Having an attractive and efficient frontend is necessary for any establishment and individual who is building an application on the internet for large-scale enterprise operations. The numerous features of AngularJS stand out as a framework to develop user applications in very little time and effort. Due to its high performance, ease of adoption, fewer lines of code, dependency handling and provision of frequent testing, AngularJS has emerged as an increasingly popular way to build interactive and user-friendly single web and mobile applications. Among its many use-cases, AngularJS is especially ideal for use in the development of video streaming applications, weather applications, E-Commerce applications, and User Review Applications.
Let us take a look at some of the important reasons behind the rise of AngularJS framework –
- High Performance – By provisioning such power-packed features as directives, data binding, content sanitization, form validation and animations, AngularJS provides an easy-to-use and low maintenance framework for use by developers.
- Open Source – Since AngularJS is an open source framework, it is free for use and allows developers to build frontend applications at lower costs.
- Two-Way Data Binding – Unlike other templating systems, AngularJS follows a two-way data binding process, where first, the template is compiled on the browser and produces a live view where the changes in the view appear in the model, and any changes in the model immediately propagated to the view.
- Declarative UI Expression – With provision for a fully-structured UI, AngularJS makes it easier for developers to develop and manipulate components, thereby making it easier for developers and designers to learn markups.
The popularity of AngularJS is such that, as per Stack Overflow, it is the world’s most popular frontend development framework Because of its many features, it has become the top choice for frontend developers all over the world, seeking to develop efficient and powerful applications. With backing by powerful organizations like Google, AngularJS will continue to remain abreast with the latest developments and trends in the frontend development world and will remain top-dog and the first choice for frontend developers.
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