I don't work for Google: but let's talk about AngularJS.Specifically, I have been working with the JavaScript framework AngularJS recently. When the web was very young, it served static pages, for which HTML was appropriate because browsers facilitated looking at a page and then looking at the underlying markup; learning by view source was viral. Then the web started getting more dynamic, and technologies like JavaScript were introduced to allow for greater interactivity, but they never lost their reputation as "glue code".
Static webpages are a thing of the past. A mature JavaScript framework like AngularJS enables the browser to behave dynamically without hiding a lot of functionality in controllers; this means that the HTML code should still be easily understood at the level of view source. This is what I mean when I refer to the New Glue. JavaScript has evolved beyond "glue code": the real magic is in the autowired data binding provided by the underlying framework
This is nothing new, of course, but I do think it's important to note that use of a framework should allow you to do simple dynamic web pages without a lot of code; CSS can provide some of this as well. If you find yourself writing a lot of controller code for a dynamic webpage or mobile application, ask yourself if you really need this level complexity, or are you coding around the automagic?
The level of investment in a JavaScript framework is very low. Using a best of breed combination of Backbone, Marionette, JQuery, Underscore and so forth can be used to create great results, but requires a reference implementation, and some extra glue to coordinate between different libraries. With a framework, all you need to do to get started is to reference the minimized script from a remote server, and build from there. This really leaves no excuse not to get started exploring frameworks like AngularJS now, and share your work.
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