Don't abandon AngularDart, don't give up on AngularDart

[insinfo]

Don't abandon AngularDart, don't give up on AngularDart, me and my company are investing heavily in AngularDart, we are migrating all our web applications to AngularDart, I love Flutter for Mobile, but Flutter is not WEB-productive. WEB, we can't use many existing HTML and CSS templates, because in Flutter we can't use HTML and CSS.

• Dart SDK 2.5.2
• AngularDart 5.3.0
• Windows 1903
• Chrome 77

[supermuka]

My company is investing heavily in projects using AngularDart too. We are really fan this powerful framework and the possibility to use all html and css features necessary to complex web app.

Long life to the AngularDart and Components!

[oonid]

the documentation site still updated daily ¹,
but the framework has no more updates since August 2019. ^{2 3}

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/dart-lang/site-angulardart/commits/master ↩

2. https://github.com/dart-lang/angular/commits/github-sync ↩

3. https://github.com/dart-lang/angular/commits/master ↩

[oonid]

good news, the framework ¹ get updates 😆

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/dart-lang/angular/commits/master ↩

[DevAlves1993]

good news, the framework ^1 get updates laughing

Really good news, I was really worried about the inactivity of repo. I hope Flutter will take the developers to try AngularDart

[insinfo]

@DevAlves1993
I totally agree with you

I hope Flutter will take the developers to try AngularDart

[insinfo]

I see AngularDart as a much cleaner, nicer, organized and simple version of Angular. I particularly see TypeScript syntax very ugly and dirty. There are some areas of AngularDart that can improve, especially the router part and simpler forms of serialization.

[GowthamF]

I started learning Angular with TypeScript using some Udemy tutorials but I didn't even understand anything. So I had to give up on Angular. But After Flutter announces Flutter for Web I started learning Dart. It is really easy to learn. Since Flutter for Web is not yet ready for production, I moved to AngularDart. I learned everything using Documents. I was not able to find any Video Tutorials. Documentation is perfect for a beginner to learn it. I would really need Angular Dart to be added with some more features without giving it up.

[Bellski]

Long life to the AngularDart and Components!

[Dimous]

We need an official status update.

I heard Google uses AngularDart for AdWords and other teams also prefer Dart version. Is it still true?

[Bellski]

We need an official status update.

I heard Google uses AngularDart for AdWords and other teams also prefer Dart version. Is it still true?

Problem that AdWords was on GWT and we know what happened(

[quangv]

@Bellski

Problem that AdWords was on GWT and we know what happened

What happened?

[Bellski]

@Bellski

Problem that AdWords was on GWT and we know what happened

What happened?

Google moved from GWT to Dart. And stopped support GWT.

[insinfo]

@Bellski

Long life to the AngularDart and Components!

I really hope Google will not abandon AngularDart, otherwise my organization and I will be greatly damaged.
If Flutter is successfully ported to the Web.
I think AngularDart runs on Flutter, because the angular templates HTML can be compiled for Flutter widgets. I've seen some projects here on github that use compiled XML for Flutter widgets, so this is very possible.

[steida]

[timsneath]

Hi there -- thank you for your passion for AngularDart! It's always exciting to see others who are getting value out of this project. It's encouraging to see this issue get a ton of thumbs up.

Firstly, let me (partly) reassure you. AngularDart is not going away and is as actively developed as ever, although we have shifted our focus a little.

As you have noticed, our activity on GitHub has become more bursty in recent months. Because of the heavy usage of AngularDart internally within Google, we moved the primary source of truth to google3, our internal mono-repo. Our goal is to push out new code to GitHub periodically, and we're in the process of automating this so that we’re able to improve the frequency of these syncs. And as you've seen, in the past few days, a large number of changes have landed from a broad set of contributors that bring GitHub up to date.

But yes: we also want to be honest that our focus has shifted somewhat, recognizing the heavy internal usage of AngularDart and comparatively low external developer base. AngularDart is ideal for large-scale data-heavy apps like AdWords with millions of lines of code, but there just aren't that many of this kind of app externally, and we've gradually recognized that. Externally we have a loyal but relatively small following, but AngularDart is probably never going to be a broad general-purpose web framework. Conversely, we have a growing audience of thousands of Google engineers using AngularDart internally, and so most of the features we build are with that audience in mind, knowing that what they need will likely also be of value to external developers.

Lastly, we want to recognize that with the emergence of Flutter’s support for the web, we have other motivations to continue to develop Dart web scenarios - from improved IDE tooling to compilers. In fact, our level of investment in web tooling for Dart is higher than ever, with more engineers working in this space than at any previous point in the project's history.

So, to summarize:

• We're continuing to develop AngularDart, although our orientation has slightly shifted towards our internal audience, where it's proven very successful.
• We will continue to release AngularDart builds externally to GitHub. Success for the project isn't measured by us in how many millions of external web developers adopt it, but we are delighted to have you as a customer if it suits your needs.