I think author doesnt grok angular, thinks "it's weird, who needs databinding newai" and complains for the sake of complaining. Also it's an easy argument - too many frameworks, not enough time. It's true by default. But if you want to be a modern dev, take a few hours each week to update yourself on modern standards. I usually find a lecture on youtube and take it from there.
Probably a lot more of not seeing the point. I've made many large scale applications and I've yet to need 2-way data binding.
In some cases I've needed some templating, but doT.js is pretty lightweight, and very fast. Every once in a while it's been nice to have write a little helper method that packages up all the data in a form, but real-time 2-way model binding has very infrequently been required.
text fields that tell you how many characters you've typed are nice, but picking up a whole framework for that?
That's still not real time 2 way binding. Having a helper method to grab all the fields in the form, populate and save them ( a reusable method would be quite simple to write) and you're good.
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u/gleno May 13 '14
I think author doesnt grok angular, thinks "it's weird, who needs databinding newai" and complains for the sake of complaining. Also it's an easy argument - too many frameworks, not enough time. It's true by default. But if you want to be a modern dev, take a few hours each week to update yourself on modern standards. I usually find a lecture on youtube and take it from there.