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by nlh 4199 days ago
Agreed 100%. This would be hugely helpful for me (and others I hope): I get where Angular shines (heavy-lifting for single-page apps). The part I'm missing is how to do the day-to-day jQuery stuff in Angular. Change CSS classes on button clicks. Hide & show elements on drop-down changes. Etc.

In my mind, Angular is still "for building a rich app", whereas jQuery is "for adding a bit of magic to an otherwise static page" (I know that's not really true, but it's what I use it for.)

I'd love to get fluency in Angular - or at least a great understanding of it - for that latter case. Is it usable for the day-to-day "magic" bits of an otherwise normal webpage? (Other than the 2-way data binding example which I see all the time and understand).