You are here for the answer to one question: Why should your business hire Angular developers in 2022?
(Want us to talk about AngularJS before that? Scroll to the bottom of this guide for a bonus section.)
Here’s the short answer: (Don’t worry — we’ll get down and dirty with the details later).
- AngularJS is maintained by Google, by a global team of developers.
- AngularJS is open-source.
- Angular developers don’t need specific expertise.
- Automatic two-way binding
- It has a simple MVC (Model View Controller) architecture.
- Angular develops static files, reducing the load on the server.
- Angular features comprehensive testing.
With that, let us move into a slightly more detailed interpretation of the above points.
But before that, one thing to keep in mind: when we say “Angular is good for business”, we are talking about developing dynamic applications both at the baseline level as well as at the enterprise level, which is why it is a good idea to hire dedicated Angular Developers, or maybe even a team. It’s worth considering.
Enterprise level simply translates to higher load capacities, shorter load times, and more features.
The good news? AngularJS can handle even high-load applications with the same ease as smaller versions of the same.
In fact, Angular is so good that even Google uses Angular for many of its internal processes.
Benefits Of AngularJS For Enterprise-Grade Use:
Angular Features A Component-Based Architecture
Angular is made up of these little “pieces” called components.
Think of components like lego blocks, which can be slotted together, bit by bit, until you have yourself a full-scale, enterprise-grade application.
Also, components in AngularJS are joint, which means to say that a component is only made up of those elements that are related to each other, or those that have a similar function.
This layout of components provides for a rather clean API (Application Programming Interface) to any AngularJS application.
The components in Angular are structured in a “tree” layout, with each component leading into the next, which brings me to its main benefit: reusability.
Components in Angular are reusable, which means that once you have finished developing a particular component, and you need to use a similar component, all you need to do is “call” that component again, instead of redesigning an entirely new one.
The main benefit of reusing components is that even though you may lose a bit of customization, your application becomes extremely consistent.
Angular Is Written In TypeScript Code
Although the name says “JS”, implying a full JavaScript-based experience, Angular is actually written in the TypeScript language, which has quite a few benefits.
Even though Angular is indeed based on the JavaScript universe, having its code written and maintained in TypeScript has the major advantage of allowing the programming team to add even static elements and static types to the code block,
This is in complete contrast to libraries that use only JavaScript, which only support dynamic type.
The difference? Dynamic type languages execute their type-checking at the runtime point, whereas static typed languages perform their type checking at the time of script compilation..
Translation: with dynamically written code, the variables in the program can receive different values at runtime, and their type is defined at runtime.
For businesses and enterprise scale applications, the biggest benefit of typescript is that it has auto-injection capabilities, and also allows the programmer to instantly check why the expected input is not what one expected, as opposed to having to go all the way to the start of the program.
On small-scale projects, this has little to no effect on the coding process, but as soon as we get to the slightly larger, more complex projects, this ends up saving a lot of time in the long run.
Lastly, it also makes editing the finalized code much easier.
SSR (Server Side Rendering)
This article would be incomplete unless we mentioned Angular’s Ivy Renderer, which started to be distributed as part of the standard AngularJS package way back in AngularJS version 9.
Let’s cut a really long, really brilliant story short: We write code in Angular in HTML and TypeScript, but we still need to convert it into JavaScript so that internet browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, Apple Safari, Opera) can read it, and display the finished product to the user.
This is done through the Ivy Renderer, which translates all the components in Angular into a language that the browsers can display, and that the users can interact with.
Angular’s Ivy Renderer also follows a protocol, for want of a better word, known as “tree shaking”. Through tree shaking, the ivy renderer removes all “idle” or unused portions of code from the bigger block.
Through this, the overall weight and heft of your application, (both in terms of load and code weight) becomes much, much lighter, and by extension, much faster.
AngularJS Has Dependency Injection
You’ve already read about dependency injection and auto injection in this article, and now it is time to explain what these are.
So what exactly is dependency injection? To lay it out bare, dependency injection is a process that makes a class independent of its dependencies.
It is a design process, or rather, a design template wherein an object in a class is pre-supplied with the objects that it, in turn, needs, instead of it having to construct them on its own.
Dependency correlates all the modules, elements, and objects in a class and defines how changes to one will, in turn, affect the other(s).
And how does dependency injection help businesses scale applications? It increases the readability of your code significantly and also makes it much more maintainable.
This in turn leads to lower development costs as the time taken to fully test the code is also reduced by a large chunk and thus also speeds up the development process.
Another key feature of Angular’s injectors is that you can replace any injector in the code without having to rewrite the remainder of the components in the program.
AngularJS Has An Excellent Material Design Reserve
It is very possible that AngularJS has the best design library and resource availability of any framework in existence.
This library is called “Angular Material” and allows for the building of an excellent user interface without too much headache on the part of the developers.
The development team can use the time they save to focus on other more crucial aspects of the application design.
Angular Material does this by providing developers with prebuilt UI (interface) components that perform almost the same across the web, desktop, mobile, and tablet usage.
This is a pretty neat feature as developers have to worry that much less about cross-device optimization of their application’s UI as opposed to other frameworks.
Angular Design, coupled with Angular Material are a duo that will make the development of any application’s UI a walk in the park.
Bonus Content: AngularJS Overview
Here’s a brief overview of AngularJS: it is developed and maintained by Google, was released in 2009, and has since then materialized into becoming one of the most popular web development frameworks on the planet.
AngularJS is a hyper-popular web development framework that is ranked third in demand by developers worldwide. It has several standout features such as two-way data binding, MEAN stacks, dependency injection, and express-enabled directives.
But you already know all that, so let’s not beat around the bush.
The Bottom Line
Angular was, and still is, a massive tool in the arsenal of app developers, and it is one of, if not the best enterprise scale app development platform.
It can cut down on your application size, speed up the load process, optimize the server processing, reduce the weight on the server side of things, and even nudges you along the UI/ UX road.
In short, yes, Angular is very, very good for business. The entire package takes a huge “load” off the developer’s shoulders (and transfers it to the server).
