I am very new to javascript and have mainly been learning Rails previously. I want to be able to make more dynamic websites that give a more dynamic user experience but I am not sure wether to learn Angular.js or JQuery. I want to still serve the web pages through Rails and do not want to get into learning how to build a full SPA and Rails API and connect the two yet.
On the one hand I can see JQuery would be good for adding dynamic interactions to my pages but I have also seen that Angular.js is very popular and many people have told me I should go straight into learning angular. I also like the idea of being able to eventually make full SPAs with Angular in the future.
My main concern is I do not feel ready to start learning how to completely separate my frontend and backend using a rails API and a Javascript framework and would prefer to just add some interactivity to my pages and continue furthering my knowledge of Rails.
Is it possible to use angular to add small amounts of interactivity to multiple pages without having a SPA front end and Rails API?
Thanks for any advice.
Of course you can.
Add html pages to your public folder and put a script reference to AngularJS and you are good to go.
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I want to make a lightening-fast web application and am wondering about the best way to implement it. It's a drawing app that will need support for vector graphics, but it will use a database to store data in user accounts. Here's how I'm breaking it down in MVC terminology:
Controller: Django, hosted on GCP Python app engine
Model: CloudSQL
View: AngularJS
I'm wondering if a Javascript/JQuery approach would be better, since I could have Django handle the database operations and am worried that I'll just be adding overhead with Angular.
I'd welcome any thoughts.
Once you use Javascript framework such as Angular.js and React.js. Your backend and frontend becomes totally isolated. First thing you should do it you gotta make your django REST API. Build your logics to do the vector graphic in your django REST API and build your angular.js app in away that it will "consume" your REST API services.
For the second question, it is depending on your architecture design. If your application is going to be DOM-driven, use jQuery since still jquery still provides lots of UI stuff. However, if it's going to be data-driven and you will use Javascript to organize and display the data in efficient way, choose Angular.js.
Please leave a comment if you have more questions. Thanks!
Im creating a web application with PHP (Laravel 5.) and currently AngularJS (1.). There are some components of the website that i want to build with Angular. For example a Form Generator. A user can click buttons and define which kind of field he/she would like to create. After that, the user can implement it on his website and receive submissions on it. This can be a small app build with Angular.
Currently Angular 2 is a R.C. version, which can be released soon. To keep myself triggered with the newest techniques, i started to explore it a bit and noticed the TypeScript with compiler which runs behind the public(_html) of a application.
Lets split my application in URLs to make my question simpler:
www.domain.com/form-generator -> Uses the script: /angular/form-generator/mainModule.js
www.domain.com/easy-importer -> Uses the script: /angular/easy-importer/mainModule.js
www.domain.com/my-other-small-app-> Uses the script: /angular/my-other-small-app/mainModule.js
Is it possible, efficient and recommendable to create small modules/apps that are loaded on base of the application i build instead of loading them all together? Is Angular 2 recommendable for this or should i consider jQuery and keep Angular 1.*?
If you're looking for a front-end framework to use with Laravel, I reccomend vue.js. Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, has indicated that vue.js is his front-end framework of choice.
Keep in mind, you can use any front-end framework you want. Research what's out there and pick based on your needs. Laravel is not tied to any single front-end: it's your decision.
I only suggest vue.js because it's been adopted by a significant portion of the Laravel community. That community can help you out when you get stuck, and have resources to help you get started. Personally, I watched the Laracasts by Jeffrey Way to get up to speed.
So I just spent the past 5 hours reading up on Angular JS. It seems like a lot of people are heavily associating this framework to single page applications especially when accommodated with a back-end MVC framework with nice API usage like Ruby on Rails or Laravel.
I have 2 main questions that have been boggling me:
How do you initialize such apps considering that the content is
dynamic in nature. When using something like RoR/Laravel, I'd prepare
the HTML with the dynamic data at the back-end and then serve the
initial pages. It seems like most people using Angular serve up a
basic skeleton of the HTML and then do a round trip to web server
again for some data. Is this really how its done? if not, please
suggest a the right way.
Secondly, I dont think I am about to embark on a project with a
single paged application in mind. Does that mean it would be overkill
to use AngularJS for my project. Does anyone have a use case that
they think is appropriate that would require AngularJS with non
single page application that jQuery cant handle easily?
we like to build a new web application. The requiremts are to provide portlet like "windows" in the browser, where each window could show content from different backends like a CMS, Business Data,...
The web app should be a Sing Page Application.
Currently we plan to build the web application with multiple REST based backends and a Javascript frontend framework like Angularjs, Angular 2 or React..
So here my questions:
Do you think that's possible with these techniques? Or do you think we need some kind of PortalServer?
One goal would be, to deliver some kind of API to the developers, where different developers could simpley create new portlets, without editing in one big html file. (So the developers should deliver only a partial html file which is rendered into a portlet.)
Would that be posible?
If you think, this will be posible, could you provide me link to some sample apps, which do this? And which JS framework would you prefer to take?
Many thanks for your help, and if the questions are to unspecific, feel free to tell me, to give you more input!
Regards,
Markus
I think this could be done (without a portlet container), not easily though.
First of all the Javascript Framework choice is important.
I am not an expert in Angular 2, but I think this could be the perfect choice. Why? Because in Angular 2 you have modules, where you encapsulate all the logic/dependencies/view, so this might mapp perfectly to your "portlet/window" approach.
No need to edit any HTML file, you just add the Angular 2 component each time you want to add a new portlet.
You could also try Angular 1.x and implement each "portlet" as a directive, giving the template as a parameter, as well as the depencies, so the developer could customize each portlet.
You can get the windows user experiencie with Javascript, even with Jquery
http://jqueryui.com/sortable/#portlets
so this is manageable.
Good luck
Soon I'll start working on the next version of a website I've built. Basically it's kind of a CRM. Lots of tables, forms, CRUD everywhere. The problem is that it's going to be nearly a rewrite cause of huge requirements for functionality for the up-coming version, and we will need to make the website a bit more interactive, responsive and user friendly.
Currently it's ASP.NET MVC 4, with some jQuery for ajax stuff. MVC 4 application acts as a glue/proxy between client-side and underlying service which provides all the data, so WebApp has no direct communication with database. Also MVC 4 application is where business objects are transformed into ViewModels. We use DataAnnotations Validation for ViewModels.
Now what I was looking for, is to somehow integrate something like AngularJs. The goal is to move closer to SPA, give the client-side some structure, as building more functionality on top of existing jQuery code will just result in a sphagetti. However, writing full-blown SPA is not really an option, as it will require way too much effort and time, as always, is not unlimited.
For start the goal is to move Html forms management to AngularJs. That means I need a way to render MVC partial view with MVC model, and let Angular take over the controll. Posting changes/updating the view should be handled by Angular.
I have been researching Angular + asp.net for a while now, and the problem is that I need MVC models, but Angular also needs a 'model' ($scope). I know about ng-init, but some models will be quite complex. so it does not seem like a good idea.
Also server side validation (DataAnotations with loads of customized stuff) with unobtrusive client-side validation works very well for us, so would like to keep that and somehow make it work with Angular.
I've also looked into AngularJs/BreezeJs/MVC4, but breeze mvc integration is focused on EntityFramework, and it needs model metadata for client-side to be able to save, update and cache entities. And as mentioned earlier, mvc app does not access database directly, nor has a way to generate metadata. Writing by hand is not an option.
I know I'm trying to make some kind of hybrid and would have a lot's of issues having models on server and client sides, so I am looking for an advice which way should I go.
Is this doable?
Maybe I can generate metadata for Breeze js from existing ViewModels on MVC (breeze seems to work with dataanotations and validation works on client-side, at least minimally)?
Maybe this is a nonsense and I should either continue with MVC app, or go full-SPA, and there is no easy way to combine them both.