Comment by Mario Giambanco on "Do you still use controllers and directives in your AngularJS 1.x applications?"

CommentDo you still use controllers and directives in your AngularJS 1.x applications?

Mario Giambanco

Director of User Experience Development

Apr 21, 2016

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/releases

1.5 came out just 2 months ago.

If you've created new projects in the last 2 months and started out fresh on 1.5 - ok.

But if you have any established code base > 2 views, making a transition like this will take time.

Just curious what kind of projects the people that vote "No I use only components" are working on.

Fakiolas Marios

Full-stack JavaScript lover, happy husband, proud father 😉 - Head of Web & Frontend at @omilialtd

Apr 21, 2016

Many developers have already upgraded their applications to Angular 2. At the very moment this is a risky decision for a professional project in my mind since the basic ingredient (Angular 2) is still not 100% stable. Though an AngularJS 1.x app could be restructured in order to follow the components logic in AngularJS 1.5.x by removing any controller, directive etc. This is a huge step closer to Angular 2 components ways and applications structure. Obviously the vast majority of professional apps out there will move one day to the Angular 2 direction which is inevitable. AngularJS 1.5.x gives us the opportunity to upgrade our apps with stable steps and prepare them for the major switch.

Jerry Batorski

Software Engineer

Apr 24, 2016

Yeah this isn't really an option on the app I work on. A dozen teams working on an enterprise app makes implementing changes a big deal a bit slow. We just upgraded to 1.4.x and still are way behind on many of the angular style guide recommendations. New or small apps I could totally see this being adopted though.

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