5 Things To Know Before You Get Started With AngularJS

Navigating the AngularJS landscape can be a daunting experience. While the library itself is fairly robust, choices early in the adoption process can have drastic long-term effects on your software development process. Below we present five things that you should know about AngularJS. This information won’t solve every problem you’ll have with the library, but it can help you get off on the right foot.

1. AngularJS is Entirely Client-Side

AngularJS is written in JavaScript, and it functions entirely on the client side. This means two things for your app. First, you can run AngularJS in any browser that can execute JavaScript, making deployment a snap. Secondly, you can drop AngularJS into any project without significant back-end modifications. This greatly reduces the risk in adopting AngularJS for the front-end display of your app. AngularJS is built off of HTML attributes, making enabling processing of data a fairly quick process, though in order to use AngularJS effectively you’ll likely have to rewrite a portion of your presentation layer.

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