Pure Angular is better

[couzic]

On my current AngularJS project, we are integrating jsTree in a directive. It started pretty well, but very fast it became a nightmare. I can't recall half the problems we encountered, but we painfully ended up with a bunch of buggy, convoluted code. It would have been a better idea to just write our tree directive from scratch.

However, I just ran into a project I wish I had know about before :

https://github.com/tchatel/angular-treeRepeat

It's exactly what we needed, it's pure AngularJS (which is a HUGE benefit, no more jQuery events to register to), and the creator is a well known and respected individual in the AngularJS community (the way I structure my apps owes him and his blog a lot).

In general it's not a good idea to wrap an existing jQuery-based library with an Angular directive, and it's especially true in this particular case. Save yourself the pain and go pure Angular.