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Re: Angular v22

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I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.

Re: Angular v22

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post #2

I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.

Same experience here.

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.

Re: Angular v22

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post #2

I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.

Are projects still chosing to pick RxJS (or equivalent) which make the code heavily layered and a pain to debug?

Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?

Re: Angular v22

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post #5
post #2

I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.

Are projects still chosing to pick RxJS (or equivalent) which make the code heavily layered and a pain to debug? Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?

Everything is signals now.

Re: Angular v22

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post #2

I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.

Same experience here. 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.

Angular should ditch the compiler altogether - it really hinders them in so many ways, especially now with AI-codegen where tools have to specifically choose to do the work to integrate the Angular toolchain instead of using plain TypeScript and HTML.

Re: Angular v22

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Seems like Angular has gotten better since v2 (my last experience).

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).

Re: Angular v22

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same experience here. 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.

Angular should ditch the compiler altogether - it really hinders them in so many ways, especially now with AI-codegen where tools have to specifically choose to do the work to integrate the Angular toolchain instead of using plain TypeScript and HTML.

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Re: Angular v22

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post #5
post #2

I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.

Are projects still chosing to pick RxJS (or equivalent) which make the code heavily layered and a pain to debug? Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?

I believe Signals are the go-to now, but surely RxJS is still present for complex use cases. Are Zones fully gone?
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