I recommend starting to use ES6 now with Angular 1. You can use Traceur or Babel, both excellent transpilers. Automate their use with gulp or Grunt. Both can watch for code changes made by any editor/IDE, transpile on the fly, and reload the web browser where the app is running.
I don't think the learning curve is very steep for the basics. Start with arrow functions. Add in things like destructuing, default parameter values, and enhanced object literals. Then learn about new new class keyword. You'll be in much better shape by the time Angular2 is ready for production use. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Dawn Wolthuis <dawnwolth...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like some help understanding where ES6 fits in the Angular 2.0 > picture. It is not yet "perfectly clear" to me whether folks who will are > learning Angular 1.4 today with ES5 will be compelled to learn ES6 in order > to transition to Angular 2.0. I have heard (here, I think) that it is not > required, but I have also seen no evidence that there will be a lot of ES5 > materials for those doing Angular 2.0 with ES5 in the future. > > Given that some folks moving to Angular 1.x today are highly proficient in > other non-OO programming languages but have little to no OO experience, I > would prefer that they could learn ES5 and keep going with that in a > transition to Angular 2.0. I would definitely prefer that I could at least > tell them this is likely a wise scenario. ng-1.x/ES5 -> ng-2.0/ES5 -> > (someday maybe) ng-m.x/ES6. > > I am hopeful that we can decouple Angular 2.0 training and migration (in > the future) from ES6 training and migration -- preferring to put off the > latter indefinitely or at least until it can be expected to run in the > browser. However, we do want the wealth of training materials available in > videos etc from the web for our Angular 2.0 training. We would like to use > commonly accepted approaches for this development. At this point, it seems > that most (all?) examples have the two tied together -- the developer must > leap from Angular 1 to Angular 2 while also jumping through OO hoops to > adopt OO patterns (for no highly apparent reason -- perhaps it is the > notion that after a half-century of developers writing applications without > OO, it is now essential in any language or else that throwing everything > into one language is better than keeping it simple?). [I might not really > be a snarky person outside of my Angular 2.0 distrust, smiles.] With a few > exceptions, as someone else here mentioned, ES6 solves a problem that does > not currently trouble us. It introduces a problem that does -- lack of OO > experience by some, not all, LOB developers. > > Please help me understand whether it will be wise to couple Angular 2.0 > with ES6+transpiler, rather than coding in the same language we must debug > in within the browser. Obviously, a developer would then need to understand > both ES6 (for the source) and generated ES5 (which will run in the browser). > > Please clue me in on a) whether ES6 will, for all intents and purposes, be > required in a move to Angular 2.0 b) whether it will be more difficult, > perhaps due to lack of materials, for a site to move from Angular 1 to 2 > without also moving from ES5 to 6 and c) whether you think that it would be > wise to bite the bullet and do the move from Angular 1 to 2 and from ES5 to > 6 all at the same time. > > Thanks. --dawn > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "AngularJS" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to angular+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to angular@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to angular+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to angular@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
