AngularJS lets you write web
applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you extend HTML's syntax to express
your application's components clearly and succinctly and lets use standard HTML as your
template language. And it automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your
JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Today we are announcing the 1.0 release of AngularJS. We’d like to thank our early
adopters, and we’re excited to share it with you who haven’t yet experienced it.
Our goal with AngularJS is to eliminate the guesswork in creating web app structure
and take the pain and the boilerplate out of web client apps. We think we’re there and we’d
love for you to take a look.
AngularJS’s core features are:
Unobtrusive data
binding. AngularJS automatically moves data from the UI to your model
and back whenever either of them change. There are no classes to inherit from, and no wrapper
or getter/setter methods to call. Your model can be as simple as a as primitive, native array
or as complex as you make it via your custom JavaScript type.
HTML as the
template. You, your browser, your editors and your other tools
already know all about working with HTML. Why introduce something else? AngularJS lets you
expand HTML’s vocabulary with your own app-specific elements, attributes, and class-types that
are fully compatible with the HTML specification.
Reusable
components -- in HTML! AngularJS gives you the power to extend HTML’s
syntax with your own elements, attributes that adds behavior or transforms the DOM. Want to
write <tab>,
<calendar>, or
<colorpicker> instead of
<div><div><div>...? Want
to attach keyboard shortcuts to any element by adding an attribute like
key=’ctrl-s’? You miss the <blink>
tag? All these things and more are possible.
Views and
Routes. AngularJS lets you switch sub-views in your app with a simple
route configuration. And you get URL deep-linking for free.
Tests and Testability.
Shipping apps means testing them. We provide common mocks, we take full advantage of
dependency injection, and we encourage MVC structure making it easy to test behavior separate
from view. It also comes with an end-to-end scenario runner which eliminates test flakiness by
having the runner truly understand application state.
Come and check out our many examples, tutorials, videos and our API docs at angularjs.org. And we’d love to hear your thoughts
and questions on Google+ or on our
mailing
list.
Miško Hevery is a software engineer on the AngularJS team in Mountain View, CA.
Miško focuses on imagining a future where web development is actually simple.
By Miško
Hevery, Google AngularJS team