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What is Angular?

Angular is an open-source framework built with TypeScript used to develop frontend web user applications. Angular is developed and maintained by Google. Its predecessor, AngularJS, which was also built by Google with JavaScript, was discontinued in 2016 when the upgrade to Angular was introduced. Angular is a component-based framework purpose built for high scale, complex applications. Angular components are reusable pieces of code that deliver discrete functionality such as an authorization component that includes functions for logging in, resetting a password, and signing up. Angular as a framework provides prebuilt and reusable components that speed development and allow for code reuse.

Why TypeScript versus JavaScript?

Modern web browsers cannot understand TypeScript, but they do understand JavaScript. This begs the obvious question, why built Angular in TypeScript? TypeScript offers advantages over JavaScript. Specifically, with TypeScript, developers can use:

Data types, which specify the type of data expected in a given section of code, such as a number, text string, or boolean value.
Syntax highlighting, which highlights similar types of code in colors or other styles to make the code easier to read and review.
Code completion, which auto-completes lines of code in similar fashion to how Microsoft Word suggests wording and allows a user to press the tab key to auto-fill suggestions.

These are all capabilities that increase development speed and efficiency.
The challenge with TypeScript is that it must be translated, a process called “transpiling”, into JavaScript before a browser can run the application.

What products are built using Angular?

Angular is one of the most popular web frontend application frameworks in the development community and many of the most successful software applications are built using Angular. Examples include:

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Gmail
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Google Cloud
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Microsoft Office Home

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Square
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Adobe
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Upwork

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Weather.com
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Forbes
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Paypal

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JetBlue
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Xbox
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Samsung

When is Angular a good choice for a software application?

Angular is often the best choice for complex or large web applications as its code is easier to maintain as applications grow in size and complexity. Angular provides pre-built components but also enables developers to build custom, reusable components when needed. This also streamlines testing when the same component is used multiple times.

Angular has a bigger learning curve for developers than other web application libraries or frameworks, but the speed of development, scalability, and maintainability of large applications makes Angular a wise choice under many circumstances.

CodeStringers is a Trusted Angular Development Organization

CodeStringers has built dozens of web applications using Angular and can provide you with expertise to determine if Angular is the “right” choice for your product or if another web frontend library or framework is a better fit.