Hi Dawn, The egghead.io folk have been doing a few videos on Angular 2 using ES5. Definitely more template code than if you're using ES6 but it does show that it is quite possible to write Angular 2 with ES5.
I believe those videos are for pro-subscribers only but I've found it worth the money. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:08 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. > -- Rick 587-583-7425 -- 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.
