True, but you are learning ubiquitous programming concepts in about as well conceived of an implementation as you will get in a frontend scripting framework. W

True, but you are learning ubiquitous programming concepts in about as well conceived of an implementation as you will get in a frontend scripting framework. While none of the extra complexity is crucial to making a dynamic website, it earns its keep when you try to build a big online application. Why not just learn that stuff. I think all the bundled pre-built functionality, like reactive forms, is the hardest part of Angular. That can be tedious to learn. But then again, so is 3rd party library X, so it's a wash. Factories are no longer in Angular 2