Using angular from amber

Some colleagues of mine are using angular to develop web applications.
I wonder if amber could serve as development environment for angular applications.
 
Basically you decorate the html with some angular directives, like that:
  <div ng-controller="TodoCtrl">
    number of items: {{todos.length}}
  </div>

Next you define the controller in JavaScript.
Within the controller the model is declared among others.

  <script type="text/javascript">
    function TodoCtrl($scope) {
      $scope.todos = [
        {text:'learn angular', done:true},
        {text:'build an angular app', done:false}
      ];
    }
  </script>

The angular framework takes care of binding the view with the model via the appropriate controller.

I wonder how one would write the JavaScript part with amber.

Thanks in advance.

I tried to make amber work with Angular, and it's really hard. I decided to drop Angular completely instead, and wrote angular-inspired (though much less strong, as angular have team and Google backing) trapped.

Angular's style of heavy reuse of Object.create()-based inheritance and lot of one-of-a-kind inline objects is incompatible with Smalltalk class-centric view (in fact, only thing that bugs me in Smalltalk after spending so much time with JavaScript are classes :-) ).

Maybe you will find a way. For me it seemed not worth the energy.

Herby

laci wrote: among others.
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Herby,
Pretty much agree with you. Angular looks like a waste of time. It is cumbersome and the only interesting bit is model binding. For that though Knockout is a better choice.

Thanks for sharing your experience.