Angular emanated some 'project smells' that have kept me at arms length. The size of the codebase was very large compared to alternatives. Lots of add-on soluti

Angular emanated some 'project smells' that have kept me at arms length. The size of the codebase was very large compared to alternatives. Lots of add-on solutions for various problems (ng-this, ng-that) kept cropping up. Articles explaining how to do X or Y in Angular indicated things were probably not as simple as they ought to be. And, it was mainly driven by Google as opposed to a small core team of diverse individuals. The tools that have turned out to be the best in my experience have often had one visionary lead developer, a BDFL-type champion. I expect Angular to appeal more to enterprises, while the early adopters and lean startups shift towards small libraries and microframeworks. I think web components will become more and more important, and that we'll begin to see more libraries to assist specifically with data persistence and synchronization between the client and server.