On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>wrote:
> And it has come to that - forced into JS development ! Shame ! :-p > > But I've got to admit jquery allows you to pull off tricks that would be > very difficult server side. so there's no escaping it any more. ;-) > Actually, the recent crop of binding frameworks (e.g. EmberJS initially and more recently, AngularJS) has been dramatically shrinking the amount of jQuery I use these days to the point that it's almost a code smell when I see one. jQuery is still very useful but be aware that you should only ever do graphical stuff with it (e.g. animations) and never use it to query values (e.g. calling .val() on a DOM element). One of the many great things about AngularJS is the very clear line it draws in your conceptual model: any jQuery directive in your controller code is wrong and should be moved out. jQuery was a great advancement in making Javascript and single page applications more tractable, but I feel that Javascript development has reached a brand new level of maturity with AngularJS. If anything, you should spend more time learning this than jQuery (which is pretty trivial in itself). -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
