Why is it finally time to let AngularJS replace Silverlight?
Microsoft Silverlight—a framework that assisted web developers to create rich and interactive web applications and that rose to fame for offering online video streaming capabilities in applications, is already dying a slow death. It is high time that it is made completely obsolete and be replaced with better and advanced frameworks. Undoubtedly, when Silverlight was first released in 2007, it was the best thing that occured to the internet.
Remember streaming The 2008 Summer Olympics of Beijing Or The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Or
The several live conventions of the political parties of the United States? Guess what? All of these streamings were facilitated by Silverlight.
Also, major online video streaming applications like Amazon Prime and Netflix used Silverlight to deliver content to their users for a long time. Such was the glory of Silverlight! But then, everything that rises high has to fall someday to make way for something new and better to take its place. The same happened with Silverlight. As impressive and satisfying the data binding concept of Silverlight, which made the coding very easy and also the separation of view and viewmodel so clean, was, it is now time for the next big framework to take over the batton and carry on with the race of developing impressive front ends for websites.
Why? Here are all the reasons why Silverlight is now totally out of date: 1. XAML: This acronym stands for Extensible Application Markup Language and Silverlight is said to be a native XAML technology. The language was born in .NET but is a really primitive form of UI language which can just create rich object graphs in a declarative fashion. When this is compared to HTML5, the gap in its capabilities as a UI language is immense. HTML5 is a highly developed form of UI language and one can say that if HTML5 is the Pizza of the UI language, XAML is just the dough.
2. The reach: Silverlight was plugin that was installed in all web browsers like Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc. and it also came pre installed in all the versions of Windows. But when it was about compatibility with Android and iOS and other such operating systems, it failed. Also, since 2014, all the development work for the Silverlight plugins has already been stopped and thus, it is now completely obsolete. Microsoft has declared Silverlight to reach its end of life in 2021.
3. The stability and performance: Of course, Silverlight was an impressive frontend framework when it first started off and a lot of developers were impressed by its capabilities.
But it somewhat lacked in providing the stability that all the web applications required. Also, the performance standards it offered were not able to match with the growing needs of the website users. Web applications running on Silverlight did not offer a responsive design. Again, security was another concern with it. All these shortcomings made way for newer frameworks that could replace it and fill its gap along with getting rid of all the drawbacks. Now, you may ask what is capable of replacing Microsoft Silverlight? In my opinion, it is AngularJS.
Why? Here are all the reasons that can strongly support that AngularJS is the one which can take over Silverlight:
1. Better maintainability: Web applications with the AngularJS framework have better maintainability in spite of a large database. A web application needs regular upgrades and fixing of minor and well as major bugs and glitches. For that, one needs the set up to be such that such small changes are easy to make. AngularJS uses the model as the source, which in turn encourages an object oriented design for the clientside. This creates a website based on object oriented design principles that make web application maintenance simpler.
2. Easy to build web application: The AngularJS framework facilitates web developers to create web apps that are fully responsive along with an impressive user interface. The framework comes with several in-built features that speed up the development process with directives that encompass many of the common operations in jQuery. Also, the developer spends less time in coding and more time in working on the website to enhance the overall look and feel and add more and more features for and improved user experience.
3. Handling dependencies: AngularJS can smoothly handle dependencies. One can divide the web application into logical modules which are connected with each other through dependencies. These dependencies can be initialised separately. This way, one can dynamically load JavaScript modules when and required. This way, development of single page web applications becomes easier and the performance is improvised manifold.
4. Simpler testing: Due to the facility of enabling dependencies, one can simply divide the web application into various modules and test them separately. This enables a smooth way of testing and helps detect bugs quicker. Also, it becomes easier to detect issues are look for areas where there is room for improvement. All this, in turn improves the performance of the website as a boosted testability enables web developers to improvise on the web application regularly.
Summing up The above 4 points clearly explain why the legacy of web applications that was started by Microsoft Silverlight has to be now passed on to AngularJS. It is beyond doubt that AngularJS web development has surely created a new age of web applications that are more secure and faster with a better performance. Also, AngularJS has given all the XAML developers a place to go to as HTML5, that replaced XAML is a lot similar to XAML.
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