My Experience of Keeping up with Angular for 7 Years [video]

  • I am pretty happy with Angular. Can't believe it has been 8 years but as we continue to update the codebase, yes there is fatigue, but when you integrate a VSCode extension with git, many of the lines we update are many years old and often come down to improvements.

    I think what is often neglected is that it is about the architecture. 8 years ago, React didn't even have Typescript Declarations and even if it did, how many times did you refactor your state management and each component as a result?

    Before Angular, many companies (outside of the major players) were just eval() and doing absolutely outrageous inheritance chains with crazy levels of JQuery dependencies and mismanagement.

    As someone who made a choice in a 3 man team 8 years ago and having scaled the product to 58 developers. We are all fairly happy with our small bugbears.

    Should we progress to another framework, we hope for the genuinely valuable opinionated way of doing things that has allowed us to grow as we have.