How I stopped loving Angular

A thorough review by an experienced Angular developer. After having used Angular 2/4 in a greenfield project for the last 6 months, I agree with most of what he says. TypeScript is great, but Angular is sometimes easy, seldom simple and mostly complected [1].

1. Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

This is the first non-shallow critique of angular delivered from a place of experience I've seen. After creating 2 medium size production web apps, I found my self shaking my head in agreement.

If the author reads Hacker News, thanks for the write up.

When Vue gets first class Typescript support, it will get real consideration for our next app.

I think Angular 2+ just misunderstands what most applications need or what most developers want.

Typescript is an amazing tool and will be better once there's even wider support. Observables are interesting and RX.js has been useful to me. Zones are interesting but I've not had a real chance to use them.

But, I think putting these and many more concepts together make Angular even less accessible to a majority of developers. Developers can choose these components individually and mix and match for the project, but Angular has made all of these decisions already. That works for some people, but not enough.

Add to it the extreme confusion over naming and the massive paradigm shift from AngularJS 1.

I agree that Vue, React, and other libraries do a much better job and aren't complete packages, you can put together the foundation you need.