On: Angular 2 versus React

[Svenskunganka]

I think you're gonna like Aurelia[1]. It's badass compared to Angular 2, React & Polymer. You get this really, really nice feeling of writing pure Javascript. It's smaller than Angular, strictly follows Javascript standards which is soooo nice. No

  {{bindingVariable}}

but instead:

  ${bindingVariable} // Just like in Javascript template strings!

Binding? Sure:

  <input type="text" value.bind="variable">

Two-way? Of course:

  <input type="text" value.two-way="variable">

One time? Yep:

  <input type="text" value.one-time="variable">

The templating is so simple, as it follows the APIs as well, for example - how would you bind markdown to the innerHTML of an element? Well, just pass the variable through a ValueConverter in your bind:

  <div inner-html.bind="variable | markdown">

It is also pluggable. You can replace almost everything in Aurelia with your own implementation very easily.

[1] - http://aurelia.io/

EDIT: Added a little more to explain my reasoning.

[voltagex_ → Svenskunganka]

On a fast i7 and a 50 megabit connection I get:

* A flash of unstyled content

* No text on first load for 5 seconds

* A one second delay switching between pages on the docs page.

Bring back text/plain.

[blackkettle → Svenskunganka]

Are there any examples using this in the wild? I couldn't find any 'Sites powered by Aurelia' page on the site. Would be interesting to see some full fledged sites (besides the project site).

[Svenskunganka → blackkettle]

Well the docs[1] are built using Aurelia, and it's really cool as it fetches the framework API directly from their GitHub repos via GitHub API and caches it on clients computers.

I am currently in the process of re-building our company website with Aurelia (previously Angular 1.X).

[1] - http://aurelia.io/docs.html

[exogen → Svenskunganka]

Unfortunately it's not so cool now that their GitHub API limit has been reached. That docs page is completely blank for me.