Ask HN: How to convince my boss to use Angular.js

8 points by rodrigoavie 11 years ago | 11 comments

Hi everyone,

I work for a Brazilian mobile ad network that has two major Rails application and a lot of old school jQuery-based JavaScript that could be refactored into a Angular.js to improve code quality and maintainability.

I wanna hear from the Angular.js developer and enthusiasts, what reasons could I use to influence my boss into accepting Angular.js into the projects?

Thanks

akbar501 11 years ago |

The first step would be to understand his/her priorities.

Talk to your boss, make a two second statement like "I'm excited about Angular.js and I think it can help improve our business. However, rather than just pitching a technology to you, I'd like to learn more about your priorities and the priorities of our team so that I can focus my energies on improving our business."

Then sit back and listen.

Business priorities will trump a change in technologies. Also, if you want to be taken seriously, then you should know both the pluses and minuses of switching to Angular. What browsers do customer use? Are they supported? What is the skillset of the team? Will training be required? And so on. Be ready to discuss these topics objectively.

What benefits do you think Angular will bring? How will that help the company develop faster at a lower cost, provide a better user experience that'll increase revenue, etc.

iends 11 years ago |

http://andrewaustin.com/an-overview-of-angularjs-for-manager...

I wrote this to convince my boss to use AngularJS.

rodrigoavie 11 years ago | |

Wow! thanks

kalagan 11 years ago |

What are these applications doing? Do you want to turn these applications completely into Single Page Applications or you just want to have some clean JavaScript instead of the old school jQuery?

rodrigoavie 11 years ago | |

have some clean JavaScript instead of the old school jQuery?

In our particular case the JS code is quite a mess, which of course could be fixed without getting rid of jQuery, but I really want to use all the features of Angular.js

mobman 11 years ago |

http://coderfactory.co/posts/top-sites-built-with-angularjs

show him this

codeonfire 11 years ago |

Create a "prototype" i.e. don't ask permission. If time prioritization is a problem then spend a few hours after five making it.

saurabh 11 years ago |

Create a reusable directive that you can embed anywhere in the app and just enough API's to drive it.

mobman 11 years ago |

jst ask him to follow this thread ....m sure he would be enlighted .:)

atmosx 11 years ago |

honest question: Is JQuery considered old-shool?!

rodrigoavie 11 years ago | |

No, it is just that when the application grows too much, it is interesting to have the JS organized in a more standardized way, the MVC feature and two-way binding is very attractive to me.