Angular in Simple Terms
Originating in 2009, Angular (also known as AngularJS or angular.js) is a JavaScript frontend web framework. Its primary use is in simplifying the development and testing of single-page web applications.
Angular is mostly maintained by Google (along with a small community of individuals and corporations) and the goals from its inception remain unchanged: to decouple the client side of an application from the server side, and to provide comprehensive, beginning-to-end structure when building a web application.
The Angular framework works by reading a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page with HTML attributes (syntax used inside the HTML opening tag to control an element's behavior) embedded into it. Angular interprets those attributes as “directives” to bind input or output parts of the page into a model represented by standard JavaScript variables.
The Untold team has utilized Angular on experiential single-page applications and in enterprise communication tools. Today, with more tools available, our experience usually leads us to React when we require a frontend JavaScript framework solution.
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