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Angular: Just Say No

Angular: Just say no

A collection of articles by AngularJS veterans, sometimes even core committers, that explain in detail what's wrong with Angular 1.x, how Angular 2 isn't the future, and why you should avoid the entire thing at all costs unless you want to spend the next few years in hell.

Reason for this: I'm getting tired of having to explain to everyone, chief of which all the indiscriminate Google Kool-Aid™ drinkers, why I have never believed in Angular, why I think it'll publicly fail pretty soon now (a couple years), and why it's a dead end IMO. This gist serves as a quick target I can point people to in order not to have to parrot / compile the core of the articles below everytime. Their compounded reading pretty much captures 99% of my view on the topic.

This page is accessible through http://bit.ly/angular-just-say-no and http://bit.ly/angularjustsayno, btw.

@ng-druid

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Angular is alive and well thriving with powerful new features in the recent v15 release.

@hhvdblom

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Well MS Teams is using react now. React leads by miles now in SPA developement. But the community is still not happy with those bloated SPA tools and trying web components. Htmx is now used for small/medium websites. Big websites need complex state maintainance.

@Shireilia

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Oh looks like i've missed the 9th for quite a few years.

Is it dead yet ?

@rezonant

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Still happily building with Angular (now v21) for every single project since I posted in this thread 10 years ago. It's better than ever.

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