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For years I’ve been saying “Angular is the wrong choice now but it will be the right one someday…” I didn’t think it would take 5 years to get there.

The Angular team has been doing incredible work lately.

The only thing that I still don’t like about Angular is trying to learn anything from the reference docs.

Have a reasonable developer tell me what a component viewProvider is and how it’s different from a provider using the @Component docs. It’s impossible. https://angular.io/api/core/Component#viewProviders

Whatever committee decided to silo the Angular reference docs from the usage docs has caused more harm than most of the hyperbolic non-examples I can come up with.

If you’re writing docs, please, please do me a favor and study the structure of the Django and Python docs.

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> Have a reasonable developer tell me what a component viewProvider is and how it’s different from a provider using the @Component docs. It’s impossible. https://angular.io/api/core/Component#viewProviders

Like this?

- https://angular.io/guide/hierarchical-dependency-injection#u...

- (new docs site) https://angular.dev/guide/di/hierarchical-dependency-injecti...

Exactly my point.

I linked to the reference docs, you linked to the usage docs. They're completely divorced from each other. There's not even a link from reference to usage docs.

For the reference docs to be useful you already have to know what the thing is, what it does, why you'd need it.

You can be on the component page where `viewProviders` is documented and get nothing from it if you're coming in fresh.

Why would ever design docs like that?

Angular is the only framework I've ever struggled to learn. It's a complicated framework but that's not the problem. The docs are the problem.

Which is strange. Google knows how to write docs. Or at least I've been very happy with the flutter docs. But now working on angular frontend is awful tooling wise. I don't even get useful inline docs for a lot of libraries.

> Which is strange. Google knows how to write docs.

Oh, they don't. Some of their teams know how to write docs for some of the products. A lot of the time it's autogenerated reference with a couple of bare-bones examples

First, create an AnimalService with an emoji property of whale

You can leave all the FlowerService related code in place as it will allow a comparison with the AnimalService.

Yeah it’s not great, but they do both show up as results via search.

What makes it the right choice in your opinion?

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