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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 not

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.

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.