是 Angular 平台还是框架？

Question

I am newbie to Angular I am going through various documents available online.
Angular.io
Range.io
Angular.io sites says that

Angular is a platform that makes it easy to build applications with the web. Angular combines declarative templates, dependency injection, end to end tooling, and integrated best practices to solve development challenges. Angular empowers developers to build applications that live on the web, mobile, or the desktop

Range.io says that

There are many front-end JavaScript frameworks to choose from today, each with its own set of trade-offs. Many people were happy with the functionality that Angular 1.x afforded them. Angular 2 improved on that functionality and made it faster, more scalable and more modern. Organizations that found value in Angular 1.x will find more value in Angular 2.

wiki defintion

Angular is a TypeScript-based open-source front-end web application platform led by the Angular Team at Google and by a community of individuals and corporations. Angular is a complete rewrite from the same team that built AngularJS

In some places on web Angular is defined as a javascript framework and some places a platform which one is correct it's a platfrom or a framework I reffered this thread but did not clear my doubt completely could someone shed light on it?

Answer 1

It's both a platform and a framework.

When you use it for web application, you may call it a framework.

But when you use it for web, iPhone, android or any mobile, you may call it a platform. Because you know what is platform. Mobile applications are accelerating both hardware and software for its application system. A web application using angular is also considered as a platform. Because browser specific commands you can use when you develop mobile app. Suppose, you're developing an android app, then you need to test it in desktop browser. You need to accelerate it with hardware command to launch. And it's a platform.

So, when you develop mobile application using any available resources like NativeScript, Cordova, Ionic, etc. and you use angular and in that term angular is a platform.

So, the platform can be defined as a framework which can be used across multiple systems. And angular can be used in any system and it can be termed as a platform.