There are a number of alternatives developers can take into consideration, including AngularJS successor Angular, Vue.js, and React, all options that remain valid today. Of course, being AngularJS MIT-licensed, nothing rules out the possibility the community will fork the repo and keep evolving it. Likewise, updates to AngularJS could be required to fix incompatibilities with new browser versions or with other frameworks. At any moment a new vulnerability could be discovered that requires prompt patching. With the end of LTS for AngularJS, though, the time has come to start planning how to move away from it. Differences between the two frameworks are not minor, starting with the language they require to adopt -JavaScript for AngularJS, TypeScript for Angular- up to the overall architecture, with AngularJS following the MVC paradigm, mobile support, and so on. This can be explained with the fact that upgrading from AngularJS to its successor, Angular, is no easy task, since Google re-engineered it completely going from version 1 to version 2.

While AngularJS will still remain available, its repo will be archived and will receive no more additional updates, including security patches.Īlthough Google announced AngularJS was entering a long-term period support over three years ago, AngularJS is still in wide use today. After a grace period induced by the current global pandemic, long-term support for AngularJS has been discontinued.

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