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The new ng-conf site doesn't use AngularJS

by mmilano on 10/26/16, 3:23 PM with 3 comments

An ng-conf announcement came via email, expressing this in the 2nd sentence:

"After much blood, sweat, tears, pain and suffering, the new website has been launched, and we think it looks pretty good."

First I thought, that's not too reassuring to read from a web framework organization. So I went to check out the site.

I was surprised there doesn't seem to be any AngularJS used. It looks like Wordpress and JQuery.

https://www.ng-conf.org/

  • by dangrossman on 10/26/16, 4:26 PM

    It's a premade WordPress theme for conference sites

    http://www.showthemes.com/conference-wordpress-theme-fudge

  • by rpeden on 10/26/16, 8:19 PM

    That makes me think more highly of the conference organizers.

    It's a small indicator, at least, that they've got a decent amount of awareness of when using Angular is a good idea, and when it would be overkill.

  • by seanwilson on 10/27/16, 4:17 AM

    You can know Angular and its benefits without needing to use it everywhere. There's no point reinventing the wheel writing everything in Angular 2 for a sake of it.