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3 points by vvviolet ↗ HN
I'm building a project in AngularJS for the first time. Kind of overwhelmed by the options out there. What tools do you use in your AngularJS stacks? Anything awesome? Anything to avoid?

Thanks!

PS - Right now I'm planning on using Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/) to keep things automated and under control, and I'm working through the main tutorial (https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/) on the AngularJS site.

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bmm6o
I've never used Yeoman, so I don't understand what problems it solves. Angular is a js framework, so I don't really understand what tools you need. Just include a reference in your page. Issues like js minification are the same as any other project, so there doesn't seem to be anything angular-specific there.

We use jasmine for unit testing.

vvviolet
Thanks for the Jasmine tip! I've been experimenting with it and it looks great.
Sean-Der
I am working on a medium sized AngularJs project right now, and have had a lot of success with the following tools.

I use http://browserify.org for building. It allows me to use NPM + libraries targeted at nodejs. My goal was to avoid the reinvention with front-end package management and includes.

For UI stuff I would recommend angular-ui+bootstrap. And then the usual libs of lodash, momentjs

You can checkout of AngularJS and project organization with browserify at https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2web/tree/master/js

gordonzhu
If you're looking for a substantial tutorial where you build a decently large web application, check out http://www.angularcourse.com.

As a bonus, I'm available to help if you have any random questions at all.