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Re: Angular 5.1 and More Now Available

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Can anyone speak to their successes with Angular post 2.0? I feel like any time it comes up, it's mostly horror stories about the transition or how shops have just moved on to Vue, etc. Is it worth still considering / where does Angular shine where React and Vue come up short?

Re: Angular 5.1 and More Now Available

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I thought this was some kind of joke... until I realized they skipped v3. But still, v5 already? Or did I just get used to Bootstrap 4 being in Alpha for years?

They changed to semantic versioning. From what I remember they intended to keep their development style of breaking backwards compatibility where convenient, though. The consequence is that you’ll regularly see major version bumps.

Re: Angular 5.1 and More Now Available

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post #6

Can anyone speak to their successes with Angular post 2.0? I feel like any time it comes up, it's mostly horror stories about the transition or how shops have just moved on to Vue, etc. Is it worth still considering / where does Angular shine where React and Vue come up short?

I tried it along with Vue and React and it was my least favorite by far. Feels very overengineered and the level of complexity relative to the others doesn't seem worth it. Probably the least flexible of the three too.

That being said, it's still a big improvement over everything else I've used that isn't React or Vue.

Angular 1.x interop seems like the only compelling thing about it in my opinion.

Re: Angular 5.1 and More Now Available

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post #6

Can anyone speak to their successes with Angular post 2.0? I feel like any time it comes up, it's mostly horror stories about the transition or how shops have just moved on to Vue, etc. Is it worth still considering / where does Angular shine where React and Vue come up short?

Angular is _fine_, but it's largely a "me too" framework that brings nothing new to the table. On the other hand, it insists on using a non-standard language, which breaks all of the tooling used in the rest of the JS ecosystem.

React and Vue are reasonable options, but as someone using Angular in production I'd urge you to stay far away from Angular and TypeScript.

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