The Spotyngular Project: Cloning Spotify with AngularJS 2
Talking about the basics of AngularJS 2 is the first step into “The Spotyngular Project”. This project will be presented through a series of posts where I’ll be explaining how to create a clone of the well-known music streaming service Spotify. What for? To show how AngularJS 2 new features interact with each other and expose the benefits and tricks of this framework latest version.
Let’s get started by talking about AngularJS 2…
About AngularJS 2
AngularJS 2 is the latest version of the framework supported by Google and created back in 2009. AngularJS gained a lot of popularity in the last few years and has been used in many web applications. Check out Made with Angular or Built with Angular to see a large list of sites built with the framework.
AngularJS 2 and AngularJS 1.x differ a lot from each other, and I guess it’s pretty simple to understand why after taking the first steps into the latest version of the framework . AngularJS 1.x required us to learn a lot of new concepts related to the framework itself, while in AngularJS 2 its core team managed to reduce the quantity of specific new knowledge needed to work with the framework. They wrote the core from scratch, built it over technologies well supported by the community and on top of web standards.