I rather like Angular. We started our project on Angular 5, recently upgraded to Angular 6 and we're holding off on Angular 7 just because PrimeNG 7 isn't ready

I rather like Angular. We started our project on Angular 5, recently upgraded to Angular 6 and we're holding off on Angular 7 just because PrimeNG 7 isn't ready yet. (upgrading isn't why I like it) I agree that ng build --prod finds different errors then ng serve -o does but we build once a day and fix them when we find them, before deploying to QA. We've also learned pretty well when a bug in build might be caused (usually not declaring a property properly or wrong type or whatever) Actual development is pretty easy once you learn the concepts. Documentation, training, tutorials are good IMO also. The only complaints I have are PrimeNG (our CSS framework) has a LOT of bugs, is sometimes poorly documented and the built in components are often lacking; when they are, we extend them and add what functionality we need ourselves. I don't want to cause a React vs Angular thread - but compared to React and the 100s of ways to get a project built, I prefer to use Angular - here is the MVC and go type approach.