Why Angular is preferred over HTML for web application development?
Tags: html, angular, web
Published: 2018-04-25 11:44:03

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title: Why Angular is preferred over HTML for web application development?
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As a solid move to revamp the web-based interactions with better responsiveness and improved user experience, the rich internet applications (RIA) are brought to the world. Basically, RIA is a web app that mimics desktop applications’ functions and features with no installation needed on the user’s mobile. It has enabled the businesses to make their reach to mobile user base at a fraction of the cost and time investment. Also, as opposed to the static websites, the RIA is better in terms of design, animation, interaction, and functionalities. 

Different proprietary technologies like- adobe flash for animation and streaming of audio and video, Microsoft Silverlight for video streaming and cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility, XForms to enhance functionality, JavaFX for WebView, and 3D and CSS style, and others are used to engineer the best-in-class internet applications that meet customers’ expectations. 
 
The optimal usage of all the technologies works great in building comprehensive applications, which is great. But, how about if a single framework provides every tool and resources to the developers under the hood. It will be stupendous! Isn’t it?

Angular.JS is one of the platforms that provides enormous flexibility to the developers to build user-friendly, feature-rich, platform independent, interactive and graphics-rich internet application without any glitches. Thereby developing and deploying the web apps in the minimum time and cost becomes feasible. The plethora of features makes [Angular.JS development](https://www.peerbits.com/blog/reasons-behind-growing-popularity-of-angularjs.html) an excellent choice for rich internet application development.
 
**Let’s dive in!** 

##MVC architecture##

To develop a dynamic and responsive application, the developers are required to separately build and connect different modules using different logics. For combining the modules in a single application, the extra code needs to be written, which is an overhead expense. This is not the event with Angular.JS. 
The framework supports MVC architecture which makes it easier to build a client-side application as the developers are just needed to build separate modules and then MVC elements automatically combine and sets them together. It alleviates extra coding for combining the modules and enable responsive application get built in the reduced time.
 
##Leverage HTML

JavaScript interface is complex and provides less freedom into the hands of developers to create attractive and engaging designs. On the other side, HTML that Angular.JS uses to build the user interface is simple to understand and uses short tags, which, in turn, enable the development of clean, clear and organized user interface. 

In addition, the directives supercharge the HTML with extra functionalities and additional elements which allow the developers to tailor-made the internet application as the requirement by just assigning the right attribute to the element. The great degree of independence enables the developers to infuse their creativity in developing and designing the website. 

##POJO model

To create the interactive applications, the data models are used that act as a gatekeeper of the data which monitors the data flow and accountable for the data persistence. Also, having getter and setter function is necessary that adds up several lines of code.
 
But, POJO (Plain Old JavaScript Objects) data model in Angular.JS is the plain objects that work as a temporary storage space to keep and retrieve the data while working closely with a controller and view. In addition, the properties can be directly added or modified on the POJO, and the developers can set loop over objects and arrays with properties to get the needed result. This way the interactive application can be created with the clean and intuitive coding.

##Less Coding##

At first, Angular.JS is modular in nature that eliminates the need to write code for combining the different modules. Secondly, it uses HTML to build the interface that uses short tags and attributes. Third, it’s platform-independent, so separate coding is not required for the application to run on the different devices.

Fourth, the directives have their own code and data binding mitigates the work of moving the data manually in view. Fifth, it allows the developers to copy and paste the existing component that they built for another application.
 
Combining all the facts together, it’s vivid that Angular.JS is power-packed with everything that enables rapid web app development in the reduced lines of code.

##Unit testing##

The JavaScript framework is popular for handling dependencies that shine in simplifying the testing process. The dependency injection binds together the complete application that aids in managing and testing the application with ease. The dependency injection inserts the mock or testing data inside the controllers to check the data behavior and can analyze what’s the output.

##DOM manipulation##

Traditionally, the view modifies and manipulate the DOM for adding the data and changing behavior, which requires the designers to focus more on the view. In Angular.JS, with MVC support, the DOM manipulation is done by directives with no involvement of view. It gives the time to the designers to create the best interface that thrives the users.