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Most likely will get bashed for it, but.. I absolutely love Angular 1. Productivity is through the roof for me. (caveat, I build small dashboards/automation/tooling frontends). And no fancy build process, sometimes I just work off 2 files (1 HTML, 1 JS)

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I am working on a product with multiple engineers and we adopted Reactiflux + SPA + Node + a bunch of fancy tools.

While I love that stack, it took me a while to realize that for most of my side projects, building alone a prototype with all those things is killing my productivity. A messy Rails api with angular1 or even Rails + ERB are way quicker.

Letting go best/latest practices and go for the the non-fancy (and sometimes a bit dirty) way is harder than it seems.

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