Next: Angular!
In the next chapter, we’ll add a third tool to our toolbox—AngularJS. AngularJS is a full-fledged Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for JavaScript. Unlike libraries like jQuery, Angular provides a higher level of abstraction for designing interactive user interfaces.
Even though Angular might feel heavyweight for the features Shine currently has, it’s not. Angular can be applied lightly, on a screen-by-screen basis, to make interactive behavior far easier than it would using jQuery. Angular also scales with the complexity of your views—where your jQuery code would start to get messy, Angular keeps things simple.
Getting Angular working with Rails requires a bit more setup than simply installing a gem, so in the next chapter, ...
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