AngularJS
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AngularJS is a discontinued free and open-source JavaScript-based web framework for developing single-page applications. It was maintained mainly by Google and a community of individuals and corporations. It aimed to simplify both the development and the testing of such applications by providing a framework for client-side model–view–controller (MVC) and model–view–viewmodel (MVVM) architectures, along with components commonly used in web applications and progressive web applications.
Original author(s) | Miško Hevery |
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Developer(s) | |
Initial release | October 20, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-10-20)[1] |
Stable release | |
Repository | AngularJS Repository |
Written in | JavaScript |
Platform | JavaScript engine |
Size | 167 kB production 1.2 MB development |
Type | Web framework |
License | MIT License |
Website | angularjs |
AngularJS was used as the frontend of the MEAN stack, that consisted of MongoDB database, Express.js web application server framework, AngularJS itself (or Angular), and Node.js server runtime environment.
As of January 1, 2022, Google no longer updates AngularJS to fix security, browser compatibility, or jQuery issues.[3][4][5] The Angular team recommends upgrading to Angular (v2+) as the best path forward, but they also provided some other options.[6]