Would you recommend using Angular for a high traffic site?

[David Tang]

I work at a company with a high traffic site and we are deciding between using Backbone or Angular. Right now we are using Backbone, jBone - a lightweight jQuery, lodash, and hogan templating. We have experience with all technologies, and I know development is much quicker with Angular. And I think Angular is smaller over the wire without any Angular extras. Others seem to be concerned with Angular's large size though. Any thoughts on what you recommend? Thanks!

[Sander Elias]

Hi David,

Did you do the math? Are you sure angualr.js minified and gzipped is larger than the combination of backbone+jbone+lodash+hogan?

Is your site attracting lots of recurring visits? if so, the size argument is even more invalid, as angular gets cached on the first visit. If you use an CDN version there is a

large change it's already in the users cache. Compare that to the change your other combo is in their cache.

If size matters that much, you surely optimized all your images? took care of what loads above the fold? removed all obsolete CSS rules? Ok, I can add another few 100 questions here...

For sure the google pagespeed will give you site a 100/100 rating?

What I'm saying is, the size argument is a non-issue. If you think AngularJS is a right fit for your project, the size of it is the last thing you should be concerned about!

Regards

Sander

[David Tang]

cool thank you very much for your points. it definitely reassured me. do you know of any high traffic sites built with angular?

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