4 ms·

We learned this lesson the hard way. A few years back, for a start-up, we picked angular 2.0 as our choice for frontend stack, when it is released. Though it wa

We learned this lesson the hard way. A few years back, for a start-up, we picked angular 2.0 as our choice for frontend stack, when it is released. Though it was fun to develop it, We faced a lot of unknowns and issues to finally ship it. Too many changes for each version, The bundle size was too big. Angular SPAs were not great for SEOs etc. We ended up missing the shipping deadline by a couple of months. When you really want/have to `ship it`, pick any technology you and your team have delivered something before. When you have time to explore, pick any new shiny technology, and concentrate on learnings.

winrid 6y ago
Using Angular 8 and seems they fixed that if it was an issue. The bundle size is like 300kb without dependencies for a prod build, but I don't know what your requirements are. 300kb is a lot, but it's also a huge framework.
- christophilus 6y ago
  Preact weighs in at 3kb. 300kb is a whole lot. I’ve written an entire SPA that is less than 300kb.
  - winrid 6y ago
    Yeah, Preact is tiny.
ngngngng 6y ago
I'm literally browsing hacker news right now to procrastinate work on an Angular task. I can't think of a less boring technology, I've been writing it for a couple years and it's still not simple to work with.
- randombytes6869 6y ago
  Switch to React if you can. I've been using Angular for years and the solution to problems is generally "more magic". Its so convoluted these days I don't think its even realistic to build an Angular app outside of angular-cli.
- praveen9920 6y ago
  Ever tried iconic? It may still feel boring but it makes things easier when developing.
  - xtracto 6y ago
    I like ionic a d it deffinitely is better than plain Angular. But Ionic is VERY immature technology: they keep moving the goal post and changing things. The latest version again changes crap with the replacement of Cordova. And if you search their forums on how to do something (like take a video in mobile and then showing it on the ui) it depends on each version and there are no clear answer.
    - praveen9920 6y ago
      I wouldn't call them immature, they could probably be called fast paced. It might help if you stick to one version until shipping something meaningful

winrid 6y ago

Using Angular 8 and seems they fixed that if it was an issue. The bundle size is like 300kb without dependencies for a prod build, but I don't know what your requirements are. 300kb is a lot, but it's also a huge framework.

christophilus 6y ago
Preact weighs in at 3kb. 300kb is a whole lot. I’ve written an entire SPA that is less than 300kb.
- winrid 6y ago
  Yeah, Preact is tiny.

ngngngng 6y ago

I'm literally browsing hacker news right now to procrastinate work on an Angular task. I can't think of a less boring technology, I've been writing it for a couple years and it's still not simple to work with.

randombytes6869 6y ago
Switch to React if you can. I've been using Angular for years and the solution to problems is generally "more magic". Its so convoluted these days I don't think its even realistic to build an Angular app outside of angular-cli.
praveen9920 6y ago
Ever tried iconic? It may still feel boring but it makes things easier when developing.
- xtracto 6y ago
  I like ionic a d it deffinitely is better than plain Angular. But Ionic is VERY immature technology: they keep moving the goal post and changing things. The latest version again changes crap with the replacement of Cordova. And if you search their forums on how to do something (like take a video in mobile and then showing it on the ui) it depends on each version and there are no clear answer.
  - praveen9920 6y ago
    I wouldn't call them immature, they could probably be called fast paced. It might help if you stick to one version until shipping something meaningful