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History and ownership - Angular Tutorial

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History and ownership

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- Every project starts because there's a problem that needs to be solved. Angular is no different. Knowing the history and philosophy of Angular may help you understand why we write Angular code in certain ways. Angular started life at Google as a side project to help employees build internal web apps. What made Angular unique was its focus on extending HTML markup with custom attributes and dynamic content, instead of using JavaScript to generate the HTML at runtime. This was a revolutionary way of writing code, and it allowed developers to keep templates separate from controllers. Google released version one of Angular to the public back in 2010, and the community loved it. I've worked with Angular for over a decade, and I've seen firsthand how it's matured into a stable platform with full support for everything you need to build web applications at scale. As of this recording, the Angular framework still has a strong focus on keeping HTML and JavaScript separate. I like this separation of concerns, and it's one of the reasons Angular is my framework of choice for new projects. Google's full-time Angular team maintains the framework with the help of a large community of open-source contributors, and Google still currently owns the copyright.

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