How is Angular different from AngularJS?
Angular is worlds apart from AngularJS in terms of the architectural building blocks, and, the manner in which apps are developed using them. Let us take both Angular and AngularJS in reverse chronological order, and understand the evolution of the AngularJS framework for developing and delivering an app for different deployment targets.
AngularJS - The MVC way of building UI apps
AngularJS, as a term, is popularly used for Angular version 1.x and prior releases. Information about AngularJS can be found on this website: https://angularjs.org/. AngularJS was meant to be used for building single page apps (SPAs) in a simple, quick, and easy manner.
AngularJS introduced several concepts, such as the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural style, Dependency Injection, two-way data binding, templates, directives, and so on, related to building UI apps in an organized manner. It should be noted that concepts such as MVC and dependency injection used to be...