Angular UI Bootstrap: *Instead* of bootstrap3's js, or in *addition* to it?

Question

The Github readme is not entirely clear on this point... Are they alternatives, or, meant to work together?

Answer 1

UI Bootstrap is a replacement for the bootstrap JS portion it is clearly stated but not on the main page.

Native AngularJS (Angular) directives for Twitter's Bootstrap. Small footprint (5kB gzipped!), no 3rd party JS dependencies (jQuery, bootstrap JS) required! http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/

https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/tree/gh-pages

Answer 2

Dean Sofer on the subject: http://deansofer.com/posts/view/20/AngularJS-and-Bootstrap

Think that explains it rather well... And give you insight into "Why" as well...

We have 2 projects: the AngularUI Bootstrap project which is recreating everything in pure AngularJS code, and removes the Bootstrap.js dependency. Then we have the new Angular-Strap which simply wraps the existing Bootstrap.js creating additional dependencies and imposing a fairly opinionated templating scheme.

And some links to the to mentioned projects for completeness:

• Angular UI Bootstrap: http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/
• Angular Strap: http://mgcrea.github.io/angular-strap/

What side to agree with is up to you.