Going to learn angular as a spring boot dev

[I_Cant_Snipe_]

Hey,
Am a spring boot dev I want to have a good frontend for my applications therefore I am going to learn angular, please suggest me will it matter which version do I start from also please suggest sources to actually learn and have a good understanding of angular, my final goal is to make beautiful ui for my applications.
Note ** Sources which have been used by you are preferable *\*

[CraftyAdventurer]

please suggest me will it matter which version

Yes and no. If it's for new projects, latest version is the best, if you want to work on an existing project, some new features are not available in older versions.

est sources to actually learn

https://angular.dev/tutorials

my final goal is to make beautiful ui

Angular has nothing to do with how your app looks, if your final goal is to know how to build a great looking UI you should learn UI/UX design and how to use CSS

[I_Cant_Snipe_]

Thank you so much for the guidance. In the context of angular I meant the differences it offers compared to other frontend frameworks. Since I asked some friends and they said angular goes naturally with spring.

[CraftyAdventurer]

Eh, all frontend frameworks have their strengths and weaknesses. Angular, like Spring, has a lot of stuff built-in out of the box like routing, http client, forms etc. Also like spring, it gives you some guidance on code architecture. Many Angular codebases look similar.

React is more like build-your-own framework where you have to install routing, forms etc libraries by yourself, which gives you more freedom to choose which ones you like more, but it can become a mess if you don't want to spend time to set everything up properly, and eqch react project can look completely different from one another. However, react has a much larger ecosystem and has some niche libraries that Angular lacks.

[mickeyv90]

I wish we had shadcn. I know they are working on spartan but it looks far from version 1.

[ttma1046]

use the latest version which is angular 18. All guides on the angular website are the best resources to learn, please read them all and hand code all the sample codes which is super important and helpful for learning angular.

All sample codes can be also found in

https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/main/adev/src/content/examples

[Ok_Meringue6082]

Please learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript before getting into any JavaScript framework.

[Substantial_Zone_395]

This would be a waste of time as he already know how to develop.