How to use RequireJS in AngularJS?

How much JavaScript experience does one need in order to use AngularJS?

• For someone with just a basic understanding of JavaScript, is it a good idea to learn the rest of the language (and web development) while using AngularJS as the MVC framework? And what are some of the key JavaScript concepts that AngularJS use?

• Answer:

  It depends: What do you mean by 'basic understanding'? How much time do you have? Are you talking about using it on a critical project? If you actually know what angular.js is, and you actually know what MVC is, my guess is you probably have a decent enough understanding. You might as well dive right on in. Set aside 4 hours and work through a tutorial. By the end of that time, you'll either be loving it or you'll realize you are way over your head. Unless of course, this is for an important or time sensitive project. Then you should probably hold off. Another route to go is to check out knockout.js. It's hard to say which would be easier for a beginner, but I tend to think knockout would. That was the first MVCish framework that I learned and it has served me well. Epilogue: I recently had the opportunity to work on two projects simultaneously, one that used Knockout and one that used Angular. My impressions are below. Keep in mind these are just opinions, not facts: Angular is more powerful, but certainly more complex. Knockout is probably easier to understand, simply because it's feature set is more focused. Angular is well suited as the foundational structure of a web app whereas Knockout is probably better if you are adding new functionality to an existing site that uses some other architecture. The documentation for each is different. I found the beginner level instruction for Angular to be harder to understand and harder to find. Knockout has a very good interactive tutorial built into their site, making it easier to learn quickly. The number and quality of more complex walk-throughs for advanced users seems to favor Angular, however. Angular is probably better for more data driven tasks and apps with highly relational data structures, whereas Knockout might be better if most of the data you are pulling is simple flat table data or feeds. I plan on using Angular for my next start-from-scratch app. I will continue to use Knockout if I am adding functionality to existing sites. I don't know if there's a way that these two would work together, of if that's even necessary.