Just curious when you were experimenting with your AngularJS demo project and getting frustrated,
Did you come across yeoman and angular generator? https://github.com/yeoman/generator-angular#angularjs-generator- Those tools scaffold/generate code base on “best practice”. Although they aren’t designed to incorporating the app into a ASP.NET codebase, but you can still take them as a reference. However, personally I enjoy writing SPA as a completely standalone client (using plain html,js, bower etc and host it out of ASP.NET (even just an amazon s3 will do) And it will be very easy to package the app as a hybrid mobile app – it’s just a matter of adding phonegap or something into your grunt/gulp build script That will separate your backend web service and client and make your life much more easier. Regards, Nelson Chan From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Koster Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2015 11:42 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: Last words on AngularJS It looks like ECMAScript 6 introduces lots of new features [1]. At first I thought this was a joke, but a quick scan over the standard [2] appears to confirm this. Do not expect adoption by browsers for several years, though. JavaScript, despite its flaws, used to be simple. But it seems a language has to be "multi-paradigm" these days to stay relevant. See C# >= 3.0, Scala, Swift and recent additions to C++. I call such languages "Frankenstein's Monster" languages because they cherry-pick features of their predecessors, sometimes in bizarre combinations, without advancing the art. Swift was especially disappointing; after all the hype of "a new programming language by Apple", Swift turned out to be prosaic. Now JavaScript is evolving into a typeless Scala, and becoming equally grotesque. Just look at this list of some of the new features for JavaScript: * modules (a la Pascal/Modula) * block scoping (a la structured languages) * class definitions and inheritance (a la OO languages) * property accessor functions (a la OO languages) * lambda expressions (a la functional languages) * pattern matching (a la functional languages) * iterators and generators (a la Python) * string interpolation (a la Perl and macro languages) * binary and octal literals (a la assembly and C) Some new features will at least make a few of those frameworks in the zoo obsolete. For example, mustache.js and handlebars.js should hopefully disappear if the new string interpolation feature is good enough. [1] http://es6-features.org [2] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0 -- Thomas Koster On 25 August 2015 at 08:58, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote: I just wish there were some JS standards. Imagine flying on Air JavaScript: you get to one of the dozens of airports on roads that have peeled off old roads to other airports, then there are 16 wildly different types of plane all claiming to get you to your destination somehow, some planes can't fly without being towed by other planes, some planes are still being assembled on the runways, some passengers have even brought their favourite pieces of plane with them to help build a new plane once they convince other passengers to join them. I still want to use TypeScript to run the show, mainly because of the familiar IDE and its benefits. I'm going to spend more time today trying to find guidance about how to structure a reasonably serious TS project, and how to use jQuery from within. Web searches do produce a few possibly useful results on this subject, but they all get tangled in dependencies on other JS libraries and I my eyes glaze over at the hurdle. Greg
