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# Leverage Angular without Starting from Scratch

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There are days in a life that emerge as stand outs amongst the rest. Some of those days are expected; a wedding perhaps or the birth of a child. Others happen without fanfare. The day I found [Angular](https://angularjs.org "AngularJS") was one of those days.

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I was in the midst of working on the [Arch](https://alca.is/fun "Arch") LMS. It had become laborious. The UI I had envisioned was becoming a mess of ajax calls glued together with [jQuery](http://jquery.com "jQuery"). It worked, but it was fragile. That wasn't really jQuery's fault. I used it for something it wasn't meant to do and tracking all those events was impossible.