To me this post boils down to "I already know jQuery, this isn't jQ, so WTF". Well, godspeed, you fancy bastard.
I wouldn't use Angular for a small'ih average website where you want some minor JS-based UI functionality. But I found Angular much more suited than jQuery for big sites that are maintained by more than just one developer. You can look at some piece of HTML and you can tell from the list of directives what's going on. No stray click handlers and whatnot.
One of my more recent clients had used jQuery for ~8 years, the HTML had changed a lot in that time and the JS had grown like a cancer due to developer fluctation and people just adding code to fix their current problems. Quite frankly, it was a mess. I believe that with a framework like Angular it wouldn't have gotten out of hand like this, mostly due to its modular approach to everything.
I wouldn't use Angular for a small'ih average website where you want some minor JS-based UI functionality. But I found Angular much more suited than jQuery for big sites that are maintained by more than just one developer. You can look at some piece of HTML and you can tell from the list of directives what's going on. No stray click handlers and whatnot.
One of my more recent clients had used jQuery for ~8 years, the HTML had changed a lot in that time and the JS had grown like a cancer due to developer fluctation and people just adding code to fix their current problems. Quite frankly, it was a mess. I believe that with a framework like Angular it wouldn't have gotten out of hand like this, mostly due to its modular approach to everything.