AngularJS

AngularJS is a MVC framework developed by Google for creating dynamic views efficiently in a web application using HTML and JavaScript. Other JavaScript frameworks that are available are

• KnockOut
• JQuery
• Backbone
• Ember

AngularJS is a open source complete application framework, complete replacement for JQuery.

• It is fully dynamic MVVM with POJOs
• It does low level DOM manipulation using directives and templates
• AJAX/REST API interaction (Resource Module)
• Code Organization, Dependency Injection, testability
• Single Page Application Support with Routing (AngularUI Router)

AngularJS vs JQuery

AngularJS	JQuery
Complete application framework	DOM manipulation, animations and an AJAX Wrapper
Organized Code, easy to maintain	Verbose code, hard to maintain
Best choice for Dynamic UIs	Horrible choice of Dynamic UIs
Out-of the box 2 way binding	Need to code a lot for 2 way binding

AngularJS vs Backbone

AngularJS	Backbone
Out of the box MVVM support	Cannot provide MVVM support without add-ons
Dependency Injection, Testability	No DI and not easily as testable
Full-featured framework	Light weight framework (not fully featured)
Actively Developed	Not Actively Developed

AngularJS vs KnockOut

AngularJS	KnockOut
Complete Application framework	Not an complete Application framework
POJO is supported	No POJO
Code Organization, Testability	No Code Organization and not easily as testable
No Code Duplication	Code Duplication

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