AngularJS add ons

Tried to add two angular extensions to my project today.

angular-tour was supposed to easily create a tour of the web site. But all I got was undefined is not a function error messages. I debugged a little with no luck and finally created an issue on the git project page. The bower also has a hard coded dependency on jquery version 2.0.3 which prevented an update to a more recent version for my project.

Next I tried to integrate angular-slider, a replacement for angular-slider. I also looked at angular-rangeslider and angular-jsslider. So many options, all providing the same service, but with various limitations. The one I picked was basically invisible, as it does not provide a css, and had a flacky mouse tracking (clicking on a handle made it change the value).

Large projects needed

Comparable to the problems I had with grunt packages, it really seems the JS ecosystem is a bit too young. Open source projects are nice and github has tons of them, but a few tens of users and a single maintainer are simply not enough to create production ready bricks.