I wish Angular dropped their weird compiler that's tight coupled to tsc and moved into more pluggable approach so you can use it with whatever TS compiler. App and unit test cold build times are still crap, but at least with a coding agent you care about this less.
Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?
For the rest, RxJS is cool where you actually need it and want it.
I'm not on the Angular development team or anything, though I do use Angular at $DAY_JOB and I'm overall perfectly fine with the framework and its tooling. However, the grass might be greener elsewhere; I'm just not familiar with it!
Has anyone done a modern Angular vs. React comparison that's not an AI slop article?
I'm also curious if it's "simple made easy" for performant applications. React is arguably "simple made hard", but there are notable, highly performant applications written with it (Linear comes to mind).
I only touch it when doing projects like Sitecore, Contentful, Sanity, and co, where React/Next.js are the official extension points.
So many hooks, use "this" and "that".
I would still rather use something else (instead or React or Angular) but 1) most jobs in my area are asking for one of those, and 2) I'm actually starting to lean towards Angular even for personal projects.
Angular is great these days, and they're making really nice improvements.
I hope more teams give it serious consideration as I just am not excited about dealing with React and it's numerous spinoffs.
import {signal} from "@angular/core"
import {form} from "@angular/forms/signals"
Other than that. Looking forward to try Angular again after a decade of absence. I think it looks pretty good.
React/Vue/Svelte are view libraries that give you more flexibility.
Angular gives you structure.
For large enterprise apps with many developers, consistency and standardization is often the main reason people choose it.
Till this day I remember this fondly as it gave me so much ease of control of the application’s many complex states. Especially when I nowadays deal with all sorts of false-prophets in forms of hooks and what ever reactive primitive du-jour (don’t get Me wrong they are 80% of the time the better choice, it’s just that they don’t scale).
What’s today’s version of complex state management in Angular-Land?
I've gone back to advocating Angular because it has been making a major comeback. It's genuinely awesome now.
React shines when it comes to the composability of components, eg. for data-table with customizable rows. It's still possible in Angular, but it's heavier.
For the rest (syntax, the ecosystem, routing, data-handling, DI), Angular is so much more straightforward. Services with dependency-injection is 99% of the time way simpler to reason about than React hooks, especially when you start to need cascading changes between hooks after user interaction.
I'm pretty sure in this late game, all the frameworks are more-or-less the same in terms of render performance. Angular has a lot of cool tricks (with these signals) that allow for only re-rending what changes.
Signals and signal stores make it very easy.
Did the whole coding by hand, no ai coding tools too.