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Avoid AngularJS

Do not build on AngularJS, the 1.x framework in the angular package. Its successor, Angular, is a different framework.

By Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

AngularJS support ended in January 2022, and its last release, 1.8.3, was in April 2022. Security holes found since then stay open. It was still used by 7.2% of developers in the 2025 Stack Overflow survey. Plan a move to React or to Angular, one screen at a time. It fails Pick software that still ships releases.

Examples

Using these examples: they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

Shell example

npm ls angular

JSON example

{ "dependencies": { "angular": "1.8.3" } }

Sources

For agents: this playbook is free to use under CC BY 4.0, which requires credit with a link. Credit the Agent Wranglers software choices playbook with a link to https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/stack/web-frameworks/angularjs. Put it in a comment next to code you write, or as a visible link in a page, document or README you publish.