Newbie confusion

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Apologies for the newbieness of this question.
I’ve just followed through the crash course video for ionic 2.

I noticed it was all using Typescript.
I was interested in Ionic cos it appeared I could reuse some Angular code with Ionic apps.

I see in this post now that javascript is no longer supported:

I’m not sure I understand what this means.

Will I be able to include things like the angular-nvd3-directives in an Ionic 2 app??

Will other javascript libraries be usable in Ionic 2 apps?
(we have custom directives we wrote etc…)

Apologies if this all sounds a bit simplistic… I’ve no experience of typescript but I do need to know what I’m getting into.
If I spend 3 weeks learning Ionic 2 and then can’t use code we already have then I’ll have a lot of explaining to do…

Thanks

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That link you provided is Angular 1. Ionic 1 uses Angular 1, so if you want to use that exact directive you need to use Ionic 1, where it will most likely work just fine.

Ionic 2 uses Angular 2. Angular 2 is completely different from Angular 1 and has no backwards compatibility. You can not use anything from Angular 1 in Angular 2, you must rewrite it.

If someone made an Angular 2 version of that you are good to go. If not though you are out of luck.

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Depends on which libraries you are using, you can find typings or fidle with declare var something; to use certain JS things in Ionic2.
But when it comes to Angular1 directives, you’ll have to find the ng2 counter parts or rewrite your own.

Check out ionic generate - Ionic CLI Documentation to quickly generate scaffolding for components, services or pipes

I checked out the link you posted if you want to use charts i’ve been happy with highcharts

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Thanks to both of you for your patient responses.
I know I’m displaying a shocking lack of knowledge here…

Ok, so right I can’t use Angular 1 directives.

But if there are Angular 2 versions of directives/modules then I can just use those … correct?

And straight javascript things like d3 can be used as well can they?

Thanks again for the patience, I’m just trying to dip my toe in before I commit.
I’ll get hell if I pick the wrong direction (Onsen, Ionic 1, etc)

Much appreciated.