BABahamut·Jun 12, 2016
They do - the library is UI Bootstrap: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap . I know many Fortune 500s use it.
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PLEASE READ THE PROJECT STATUS BELOW. Native AngularJS (Angular) directives for Bootstrap. Smaller footprint (20kB gzipped), no 3rd party JS dependencies (jQuery, bootstrap JS) required. Please read the README.md file before submitting an issue!
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PLEASE READ THE PROJECT STATUS BELOW. Native AngularJS (Angular) directives for Bootstrap. Smaller footprint (20kB gzipped), no 3rd party JS dependencies (jQuery, bootstrap JS) required. Please read the README.md file before submitting an issue!
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6 sourcesWe have someone non-technical helping us in the https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/ - he helps us triage issues, putting labels and helping get the reporter of issues to be more clear about the information or helping issuers of pull requests get tests in the pull request before it gets reviewed, which helps us developers of the project save time when reviewing the issues or pull requests.
Sprint planning isn't as critical in open source - it is more important to get things done right than to confine progress to sprints. Open source is hard, and core developers of projects can use all of the help they can get.
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bootstrap alert widget
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strap version
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In AngularStrap - Bootstrap directives for AngularJSJust 4 things for a start:
1) Size and dependencies. Let's say you want to use buttons directive. If you decide to go with angular-ui/bootstrap you will need this https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/src/butt... only - 62 LOC. If you decide to go with Strap you will need jQuery + 100 LOC of Bootstrap's JavaScript + 163 LOC of Strap's wrapper (!!!). Please note that the the wrapper itself is _longer_ than the original version. Native version is 1/3 of the size (!).
2) Customization - try to change a template for say, a typeahead. With the strap solution it is hard-coded in Bootstrap's JavaScript, no way to customize. With angular-ui/bootstrap template is here: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/template... and is fully customizable
3) Integration with the AngularJS ecosystem - since anngular-ui/bootstrap dir
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ectives are native ones they seamlessly work with all the AngularJS goodies like $q promises. This means that you can provide a promise as a source for, say, typeahead or data for modal.
4) wrapping existing jQuery plugins is not always obvious as lifecycles are really different. As the results you need to do hacks - just search Strap's code for setTimeout and $timeout to see what I mean.
At the end of the day just choose a project that works for you but we've started angular-ui effort since we believe that native AngularJS directives offer much lighter and cleaner solution.
Just wanted to comment that all the directives from http://angular-ui.github.com/bootstrap/ are native AngularJS directives. They don't require _any_ 3rd party JavaScript dependency (jQuery, bootstrap's JS etc.). Just take Angular, 5kB library (minified, gzipped) and you are ready to go!
On top of this all those directives are fully customizable as (almost) no DOM manipulation happens in directives, markup is extracted to separate templates: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/tree/master/template
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