Which version of Angular to learn?

St1mpMeister

I'm looking to up-skill in Angular at the moment as I'm going to be applying for a few new jobs. I have a rather basic understanding of Angular JS.

The job descriptions don't necessarily specify the version though and I understand that Angular 2 is very different from Angular 1?

Should I bother learning Angular 1 in order to get as much of a chance to qualify for jobs on the market at the moment?


The jobs I would be applying for are ASP.NET / MVC / Angular.

St1mpMeister

No recommendations?

I want to take advantage of the Udemy course sale, but each course is around 2 weeks to go through including exercises.

Goodshape

"AngularJS" refers to Angular 1.x

"Angular" refers to anything from Angular 2.x and above.

AngularJS and Angular do share a fair few ideas but really they are more different than they are similar.

The current stable version of Angular is 5.x but don't be alarmed by the 2 -> 5 jump. Versions 2, 4, and 5 are pretty much the same thing with incremental improvements , whereas 'AngularJS', or Angular 1.x, is a very different thing.

Unless a specific job you want to apply for requires AngularJS / 1.x, then I'd definitely favour learning 2+. You'll pick up a lot of good JavaScript (and TypeScript, and RxJS) knowledge along the way which will be transferable to most other modern JS frameworks or platforms. Whereas learning AngularJS is a bit more of a dead-end.

St1mpMeister

I'd like to grab a few more courses as well...

I see BackboneJS mentioned a lot on listings. Again I have a little experience with this, although it was a few years ago so things may have moved on.

I've no experience with NoSQL, so I'll add that as well.

Is NodeJS worth adding to the mix?

Goodshape

NodeJS is server-side JavaScript. If that's of interest to you, it's worth knowing.

I've not seen much (or any tbh) interest in or demand for BackboneJS in a few years. I used it myself about 5 years ago and didn't enjoy it at all. I'd say there's better uses of your time.

Talisman

I wouldn't recommend Udemy courses for learning Angular, if you are serious about learning it then ng-book is what you want. They offer a two subscription packages, one for the ebook alone and the second for the ebook and screencast. The subscription gets you updates for 12 months, so when Angular 6 and 7 emerge later this year you will get a new version of the material which will cover the changes etc.

Egghead.io is another resource I would recommend for a JavaScript developer.

Talisman

St1mpMeister wrote: »

I see BackboneJS mentioned a lot on listings. Again I have a little experience with this, although it was a few years ago so things may have moved on.

BackboneJS hasn't been updated i almost 2 years so I wouldn't worry about it having changed since you last used it.

If you are looking to drop money on Udemy courses then you should check out the courses by Stephen Grider, everything I've seen of his courses is professional quality.

St1mpMeister

Talisman wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend Udemy courses for learning Angular

Really? I thought this one looked rather good?

https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-guide-to-angular-2/


EDIT: bought, can't really argue with 9.99 .. I'll check out the ng book too, thanks