From: Bill Erickson <berickxx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:50:08 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: ang2 notes
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ang2 notes

Signed-off-by: Bill Erickson <berickxx@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/NOTES.adoc b/NOTES.adoc
index 28195b627..8b914983b 100644
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+++ b/NOTES.adoc
@@ -1,38 +1,32 @@
-= AngularJS -> Angular2+ Upgrade Notes ==
+= AngularJS -> Angular2+ Upgrade Notes =
 
-== State of AngularJS =
+== State of AngularJS ==
 
-AngularJS future is uncertain, but it won't disappear tomorrow:
+ * Final AngularJS release 1.7 June 2018
+ * 3-year LTS -- support ends June 2021.
+ * EG version 3.7 (March 2021)
 
-https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37037251/angularjs-1-x-support-lifecycle/37037365
-
-We have a little breathing room.
-
-[quote]
---------------------------------------------------------
-Although my opinion isn't official, I would expect that the community of 
-developers will fork Angular 1.x and continue to maintain it for many 
-years. There are far too many large applications written on top of 
-Angular 1.x to just drop everything and dash off to Angular2.
---------------------------------------------------------
+https://blog.angular.io/stable-angularjs-and-long-term-support-7e077635ee9c
 
 == Writing a new app the Angular2 way to experiment ==
 
 * https://angular.io/tutorial
- ** Angular2+ is AngularJS in Greek.  Same concepts, new language.
+ ** Angular5 is AngularJS in Greek.  Same concepts, new language.
  ** Modules, Services, Directives+Controllers=Components
 
-=== Typescript ===
+=== General Stuff ===
 * TypeScript is not required, but is almost universally assumed in 
-  Angular, RXJS, Mozilla docs, stackoverflow, you-name-it documentation.
+  Angular, RXJS, ng-bootstrap, stackoverflow, you-name-it documentation.
+
 * NodeJS automates various developer tasks.  
  ** Handles boilerplate code generation.
  ** TypeScript AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler
  ** NodeJS is not required for serving files in real time.
- ** Some dependencies we manually manage (grunt-uglify, karma, etc.) are
+ ** Some dependencies we manually manage (uglify, karma, etc.) are
     baked into 'ng build'
  ** TypeScript and other dependency mangling can be precompiled to JS for 
     deployment to use with Apache, etc.
+ ** 'ng update' updates dependencies (edits package.json)
  
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@@ -203,6 +197,7 @@ import * as $ from 'jquery';
 *** TODO: how will mixing bootstrap versions behave?
 * Phase III
 ** Migrate existing apps to /eg2/
+*** Goal is new UI's are indistinguishable -- no new training, etc.
 ** All new apps are built in /eg2/
 * Phase IV
 ** Remove any remaining /eg/staff/ code / templates