I started in on some Angular tutorials tonight. My first impression is that it is a “too clever by half” kind of deal. There’s a magical list of service singletons somewhere, and they get injected out of thin air! I suppose it is not really a huge deal, as making it explicit would only involve a few lines of code that nobody’s going to miss. It just struck me as odd and unnecessary.
Also, after more than an hour and a half of slogging through the second tutorial, I’ve got about thirty files open and I’m not done! That is a lot of verbiage to do not much. I might like it better if some of these files were combined in some way. But that is another detail, who knows maybe I will end up appreciating it.
All in all I am starting to see how I could write an app with this thing. I am going to have a little competition with my dating app – implement it in a few different technologies and see which one looks/works the best.