Refactoring Angular Apps to Component Style - Or, how to modernize your crufty AngularJS codebase one simple step at a time

Component-based directives are becoming increasingly popular in the Angular community. One reason for this is that Angular 2 will be all about components and people are preparing their 1.x code for the upgrade. Another reason is that componentization just makes apps easier to work with.

The thing is, even though people are talking about components a lot, most of the existing Angular code in the world is still not component-based. Components didn't become widespread until quite recently, a...