The Daily WTF
AngularJS, (not to be confused with Angular, its successor project and ostensible replacement) made someā¦ interesting design choices. Controllers existed in a tree, mapped to the DOM, and were glued together by a special object called $scope. You would store your data in the $scope, and depending on exactly how you did it, that data could be accessible at various levels within the tree. $scope also doubled as an event bus, so controllers could send messages up and down the tree as needed.
In short, there’s a reason why AngularJS fell out of favor.
Still, during the era when AngularJS was the new trend, David‘s co-workers wanted to switch to using AngularJS. Unfortunately, they didn’t know AngularJS, and only knew jQuery, so this snippet demonstrates their approach to building AngularJS applications:
<div ng-controller=”myController” id=”unique_abc”>{{data}}</div> function myController($scope){ $scope.data = “static data”; $(“#unique_abc”).jQueryPlugin(); }
The HTML block attaches an Angular
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