Introduction

The revolution in JavaScript over the past 10 years has brought web applications leaps and bounds ahead of the preceding generation. These gains are perhaps most clearly visible through the use of JavaScript web application frameworks, such as Angular.

Angular is already considered to be the most popular and widely deployed web application framework to date. As a robust and fully featured framework, Angular provides a comprehensive approach to web application development that can be very appealing for developers looking a convention oriented JavaScript development environment. Angular’s reliability, modularity, and the ease with which it extends the web client experience are many of the reasons why developers choose Angular for the frontend layer of their web application stack.

Note

The popularity of Angular is easy to find in large-scale developer community surveys, such as those provided by GitHub's most popular frontend JavaScript frameworks showcase and StackOverflow's 2017 developer survey results for top frameworks."Node.js and AngularJS continue to be the most commonly used technologies in this category."_{2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey - Top Frameworks}

You can visit the following links to learn more about about Angular's popularity compared to other frameworks:

• https://github.com/showcases/front-end-javascript-frameworks
• https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2017&utm_content=blog-link#technology-frameworks-libraries-and-other-technologies