

The new Angular is written in TypeScript rather than JavaScript, which has many benefits, as I’ll explain. Angular is especially good for developing single-page web applications and linking HTML forms to models and JavaScript controllers. In 2015, when InfoWorld awarded AngularJS a Bossie Award, I explained that it is a model-view-whatever (MVW) JavaScript AJAX framework that extends HTML with markup for dynamic views and two-way data binding. In addition to its own extensive capabilities, the Angular platform has a strong external ecosystem: Several prominent IDEs support Angular, it has four data libraries, there are half a dozen useful tools and over a dozen sets of UI components, and there are dozens of Angular books and courses. The Angular core development team is split between Google employees and a robust community it’s not going away any time soon.

Angular is popular for building high-volume websites and it supports web, mobile web, native mobile, and native desktop applications.

Angular, the successor to AngularJS, is a development platform for building mobile and desktop applications using TypeScript and/or JavaScript and other languages.
