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Massive amounts of business were also built on Angular 1.x but it is no longer supported. To be honest, I am tiring of seeing a new javascript framework everyday. I am pretty sure I saw a post for something called StimulusJs in the last hour and now this.

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Sorry, but that isn't correct. Angular 1.x had a release just over a week ago. 1.6.8 was released on December 21, 2017.

https://code.angularjs.org

I think he is implying that since Angular 2 is out, 1 is guaranteed to be gone, and no longer supported in the future.

Who would intentionally use an older version of a framework, where the upgrade path breaks compatibility?

Angular 1.x is in essence, dead. It's just going to take a long time to go away.

Actually the nice thing about stimulus is that it is deliberate in ignoring the hype cycle. It works with Turbolinks and rails core to add the small but missing interaction from a traditional ssr framework.

As far as i know, even though it was the hype at the time, angular 1's traction was not quite that of react's. All of the FB family (messenger, instagram, fb etc), including the apps are on it. AirBnB is on it (including the apps), Uber's on it, etc. That kind of business gives me peace of mind. Angular 1 wasn't used in large google apps, as far as i know most of them are still gwt.

Stimulus.js is first and foremost for Rails devs. Not very interesting for the rest of us.

You can use it with Turbolinks without rails. I have seen elixir and laravel devs using Turbolinks, not sure if they will adopt stimulus too but I suppose they could.

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