AngularJS or jQuery?

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It Should Be Easy

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• Apr 23, 2013

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I am building my first javascript heavy site right now and I have a little bit of experience with jQuery. However, I have heard a lot of buzz about Angular.

What are the pros and cons of those two frameworks?

 

jazzc

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• Apr 23, 2013

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The solve different problems. Take a look at both sites to get an understanding.

 

innozemec

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• Apr 23, 2013

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I am pretty happy using jQuery.. really easy to use, hell lot of plugins, plus you can find any sample snippets you might need if you simply google them..

 

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DrugsPlease

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• Apr 25, 2013

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I didn't know about AngularJS. One thing that caught my attention was deep linking but it's also possible with the JQuery.history plugin. If you like the MVC approach go with AngularJS otherwise JQuery is great.

 

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EqNvfHBT

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• Apr 30, 2013

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You can use both, really.
Angular is great for content management, whereas jQuery is much more gimmicky but may provide more functions for you.

 

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seocoder

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• May 22, 2013

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Depending on what you want to do. Are you building an app like gmail, or a javascript intensive application? Then use angularjs.
If you want to bind click events, move things around, make ajax calls, then use jQuery. jQuery is there to make JavaScript tasks easier to code.

 

Gogol

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• May 22, 2013

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I will always go with jQuery, because it is easy to learn and master, and has a lot of documentation...

 

phracktl

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• May 22, 2013

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Use the right tool for the right job as SEOCoder said above: these two are apples and oranges.

You should compare angular with ember, backbone etc not with JQ