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I’ve never met anybody who was using angular who could actually justify why they were using it at all. They just use it because everybody else is.

halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
It's batteries included and highly leverages reactive programming (rxjs is first class). The dependency injection is a really nice and clean pattern. I have nothing but good things to say about Angular as both a React and Angular user. They both do the same things in different ways and depending on the team, may provide benefits over the other but it's case-by-case. I've also never met a React user who could explain why React is supposedly better than Angular, other than because everybody else is.
- hombre_fatal 4y ago
  I don’t understand this chain of “I’ve never met anybody who…” when you can just ask. I had to use Angular 2 and 3, and I find React to have a better, simpler abstraction.” Was this so hard? This thread paints people who don’t share your preferences as simpletons without preferences at all. That should be a red flag.
- solardev 4y ago
  I started in Angular v1 and it's exactly what you said: batteries included. We were able to build out an ecommerce website with few (maybe zero? can't remember exactly) external dependencies, just what shipped with Angular, because it was so well-engineered, feature-complete, and well thought out. Yeah, there was a bit of a learning curve, but not any more so than learning React + eight other big packages. Fast forward half a decade, of course I'm using React now because every employer demands it, but god, what a duct-taped ecosystem! You have to reinvent SO MANY wheels and hack them together, when Angular had it all so tightly integrated. I am really pretty sad that React won out in the end. It's honestly kinda useless on its own (there's not even basic page routing). Thankfully, Next.js solves a lot of that and makes React useful and easy with a brunch of preconfigured libraries and features they wrote well-integrated together. React by itself is nowhere near Angular, but Next.js is amazing.

halfmatthalfcat 4y ago

It's batteries included and highly leverages reactive programming (rxjs is first class). The dependency injection is a really nice and clean pattern. I have nothing but good things to say about Angular as both a React and Angular user. They both do the same things in different ways and depending on the team, may provide benefits over the other but it's case-by-case. I've also never met a React user who could explain why React is supposedly better than Angular, other than because everybody else is.

hombre_fatal 4y ago
I don’t understand this chain of “I’ve never met anybody who…” when you can just ask. I had to use Angular 2 and 3, and I find React to have a better, simpler abstraction.” Was this so hard? This thread paints people who don’t share your preferences as simpletons without preferences at all. That should be a red flag.
solardev 4y ago
I started in Angular v1 and it's exactly what you said: batteries included. We were able to build out an ecommerce website with few (maybe zero? can't remember exactly) external dependencies, just what shipped with Angular, because it was so well-engineered, feature-complete, and well thought out. Yeah, there was a bit of a learning curve, but not any more so than learning React + eight other big packages. Fast forward half a decade, of course I'm using React now because every employer demands it, but god, what a duct-taped ecosystem! You have to reinvent SO MANY wheels and hack them together, when Angular had it all so tightly integrated. I am really pretty sad that React won out in the end. It's honestly kinda useless on its own (there's not even basic page routing). Thankfully, Next.js solves a lot of that and makes React useful and easy with a brunch of preconfigured libraries and features they wrote well-integrated together. React by itself is nowhere near Angular, but Next.js is amazing.