[bceagle]

Did you see the blog post from last week on Angular's efforts to help developers transition from 1 to 2?

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/08/angular-1-and-angular-...

As for little/no benefits, that is certainly not true. Angular 2 is going to be better in almost every way from Angular 1 and there are many great apps built off Angular 1. If you haven't tried Angular 2, I suggest giving it a go once the they get to beta.

[leaveyou]

At a first glance the link you provided promotes double insanity: angular 1 mixed with angular 2 (because angular 1 was not complex enough when angular 2 decided to simplify it with new syntax and requiring typescript which seems to require node.js). Is there some documentation for angular 2 with plain javascript (no typescript) for people who want to keep it simpler ? Can you provide some links ? Thank you.

[calebegg]

Each code sample here has an ES5 ("plain javascript") version that you can get to with the buttons on the top:

https://angular.io/docs/js/latest/guide/setup.html

[grumblestumble]

if you consider a "node.js" requirement (read: a build step) too complex for your projects, you're probably correct in that you don't need any version of angular, react, ember, or anything else.

[leaveyou]

Complex or not, I don't care. I don't want to install node.js and npm and that's it. If I know the names of those two apps is already too much.