First look at app development in AngularJS 2

A couple of weeks ago David East (@_davideast) gave a talk about app development with AngularJS 2.

The presentation was followed by a really interesting QAs session, with the participation of Miško Hevery, and Igor Minar.

This is what seemed most interesting to me:

• AngularJS 2 is built on top of web standards; so no more AngularJS module, but ECMAScript 2015 module, web components and so on…

• There won’t be anymore the configuration phase

• New routing system, with the possibility to lazyload dependencies (probably since AngularJS 1.4)

• Directives will undergo a real boost:

  • possibility to bind to native DOM element’s properties; for example ng-show, ng-hide are replaced by binding directly to html element’s hidden property.

  • web components (with fallback)

  • shadow DOM will replace transclusion