[hit8run]

I am currently writing an app in angular and I really enjoy how it supports my workflow. Before choosing angular I did a very thorough evaluation of Javascript Frontend Frameworks. My stomache told me to use backbone because it is simpler to understand the whole codebase and I personally like to know how something works behind the scenes. Also the built with backbone section is pretty impressive. BUT getting started with backbone was not so convenient as in angular. I dont like the fact that I have to extend things and then instantiate them. Also the whole jquery event binding + underscore stuff made me feel as if I was plugging together thousand movable pieces. Angular on the other hand makes your life pretty easy when you stay in the defined boundaries. Angulars has some drawbacks in my opinion: it is very complex behind the scenes (the size alone makes it more difficult to read and understand the source), it doesn't feel like the javascript you know (good or bad?), for almost everything there is a specific angular way.

[ulisesrmzroche]

Yeah, that's one of those things that's hard for people to get at first, that the front-end turned out to be a more difficult problem than writing the back-end.

But people judge an app by its cover, so what can we do.