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0 pointslerouxb12y ago0 comments

Hold on. I'm not talking in a "Angular vs jQuery" way. I meant "Angular vs something like Backbone that just happens to use jQuery".

I wouldn't build a large app straight on top of jQuery ;)

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batoure12y ago· 2 in thread

But seriously not to answer a question with a question, though I am going to... but maybe the better question is "why do frameworks like Backbone need to use jQuery?"

Base angular is incredibly compact and I have yet to really run into a wall with it compared to projects we have tried to do in Backbone (that sounds like we have had problems in backbone we haven't I am just saying the experience is comparable). It seems to me like the best reason to keep jQuery in something like Backbone is to make it easier to integrate existing jQuery libraries... which is maybe worth reconsidering anyway.... see argument #1

delluminatus12y ago

Not sure about Backbone specifically, but jQuery is good for a lot more than DOM manipulation. It hides a lot of the differences in browser Javascript APIs, and provides a lot of convenient AJAX tools. For instance, server communication is as simple as a $.getJSON away.

batoure12y ago

so http requests are also similarly directly handled in Angular without the need for jquery.

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batoure12y ago

See how quickly careless words can brand you as a sadistic maniac :) !!

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