I loved Angular. And I still love many parts of it. I like the declarative style, the automatic data binding, and all that other stuff that's painful in JQuery, but fairly painless in Angular.
Well, painless at first. Because eventually you run into the limitations. The data binding doesn't scale, a lot of things that are easy to declare (particularly scope variables for directives) are a lot more complex than they initially seem. The article hasn't even scratched the surface on problems with scope in Angular.
And then there's the fact that my templates keep turning everything into strings. Too often, when binding stuff from an outside controller to the isolate scope of a directive, I keep having explicitly to turn all the strings back into numbers.
Still, Angular does a lot of very neat stuff. There are just too many common use cases that the neat stuff doesn't really cover very well.
Well, painless at first. Because eventually you run into the limitations. The data binding doesn't scale, a lot of things that are easy to declare (particularly scope variables for directives) are a lot more complex than they initially seem. The article hasn't even scratched the surface on problems with scope in Angular.
And then there's the fact that my templates keep turning everything into strings. Too often, when binding stuff from an outside controller to the isolate scope of a directive, I keep having explicitly to turn all the strings back into numbers.
Still, Angular does a lot of very neat stuff. There are just too many common use cases that the neat stuff doesn't really cover very well.