Hi group, The home page of the AngularJS.org website has a prominent menu called "Learn". In this menu is an item "Seed App Project Template" which takes you to https://github.com/angular/angular-seed. This is no doubt one of the most likely routes a person will take while looking for a best way to get started using AngularJS. It was for me.
Once you get to the angular-seed home page, there is no indication of the existence of alternatives to angular-seed, much less their relative quality or the large number of them. Nor is there any notice anywhere that this seed was designed during a 5 hour plane ride or that the AngularJS team itself regards it as unrepresentative of best practices. So unless someone keeps searching around, it is natural to believe that this is the only starter, or at least the best one, because after all it was the only one referenced from the official AngularJS website. >From this comparison <http://www.dancancro.com/comparison-of-angularjs-application-starters/>, I think it's clear that this is far from true. Of the twenty such starters I have looked at so far, angular-seed seems to provide the fewest benefits (only 8%) of all. It might not seem like a big deal, but I think this is a really dangerous situation. It makes it more likely people will learn less than best ways of doing things, waste time solving problems that the more developed starters have already solved, or worst of all, seeing the limitations of angular-seed they are more likely to "generously" contribute yet another incomplete starter of their own to the fray. What do you think? Is there an advantage to making it seem like this is the only or the best way to start an AngularJS project? How much would it take to point the link to a page of the options? That would potentially save a lot of time in false starts by people who just didn't know there were alternatives to angular-seed. Best regards, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
