Advantages, disadvantages and limitations of using AngularJS in your SPA
Introduction
With worldwide adoption of HTML5 the Single Page Applications have turned from an exotic AJAX trick to a fashioned mainstream. Those applications follow the well-established MVC design pattern and implement it with the help of HTML5 templates, external Web Services as the data sources and JavaScript logic that glues everything together.
Unfortunately, it quickly became obvious that the tools (never intended for such purpose from the beginning) just do not fit the task. While HTML5/CSS3 standards leverage many of HTML 3.x/4.x inconveniences and finally provide a good base for building interactive Web Applications, the JavaScript language is a developers’ nightmare. Designed decades ago for simple animations and UI feedback, it has grown with time to a very flexible (and, with modern JIT compiling, fast enough) dynamic OOP language.