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I'm not a web developer (beyond a hobbyist 5, then 15 years ago). If angular is so bad, why does every Udemy course and web course want to teach me MEAN stack?

• lstamour 5y ago
  It’s a catchy acronym. For alternatives, check out egghead.io, designcode.io or https://beta.reactjs.org/ https://beta.reactjs.org/ depending on the content you’re looking for… I’ve never been able to pick just one framework and use it to the exclusion of all else. Even when I was writing Rails apps back in the day, I had to use Scriptaculous or jQuery in addition to Rails and friends. And often write custom Ruby gems and libraries all over the place. Something like React Native seems cross-platform and friendly until you need one simple API and then you’re writing async wrapper functions that have to talk to the main thread in both Android, iOS and wrapper JS. Abstractions and tech stacks always work well but never in isolation. You gotta write the code somewhere. I’m a big believer in owning your dependencies and treating code you ship - but didn’t write - as your own code. E.g. framework code.