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title: "Avoid AngularJS · Agent Wranglers"
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updated: 2026-10-21
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# Avoid AngularJS

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers). Updated 2026-10-21.

- Level: Avoid
- Chapter: [Web frameworks](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/stack/web-frameworks)
- Rule: Do not build on AngularJS, the 1.x framework in the angular package. Its successor, Angular, is a different framework.
- How: 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 6.0% of developers in the 2026 Stack Overflow survey. Plan a move to React or to Angular, one screen at a time. It fails [Pick software that still ships releases](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/stack/how-to-choose/still-maintained).

## 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

```sh
npm ls angular
```

### JSON example

```json
{ "dependencies": { "angular": "1.8.3" } }
```

## Sources

- [AngularJS support status](https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status)
- [Angular](https://angular.dev/)

## Related rules

- [Pick software that still ships releases](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/stack/how-to-choose/still-maintained) in Software choices

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