Comment by sjclemmy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sjclemmy | Hacker News Reader

I've just started working on an app using Angular 2 and Ionic 2.:

1. TypeScript - It's really nice to be able to use a typed version of JS, although it does feel like I'm writing C# sometimes! It supports lambda syntax / ES6 which is great.

2. Annotations seem a bit clunky, not really sure what the point of them is.

3. Absolutely love the functional reactive / RxJS stuff they've incorporated - it's going to make it VERY easy to write really powerful apps.

4. It's a million times easier to develop with than angular 1. $scope.apply anyone?

The RxJS support is definitely my favorite thing in Angular2. We have plans for all sorts of cool stuff built on top of Observables. Stay tuned.

Started to work on a frontend for realtime automotive networking systems in angular2. I used angular2 services which provide all (non-constant) state via Observables to the components - and I'm really pleased with the result. Totally reactive, and the implementation effort and complexity is relativly low.

> $scope.apply anyone?

    _.defer(scope.apply...

...re typescript, i feel like if i'm gonna use a not-script of some sort, it might as well be clojurescript or something else that's like a really-srsly-not-js rather than js-but-prettier (coffee) or js-plus-a-paradigm-grab-bag (my totally uninformed take on type)

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