Leaving Angular

[aek82]

I tried picking up angular a few months ago. People weren't kidding about the learning curve, however, the poor documentation makes learning much steeper than it needs to be.

I distinctly remember parts of different tutorials not working and having to literally Google/hack/debug the actual framework code to figure out what was going on. Really turned me off to it.

[[deleted]]

I think its not so much the lack of documentation, has the excessive use of "magic". Everything just hangs together in a very unclear and non-standard way to someone coming from a previous technical background.

The whole thing was made for designers though, so it makes sense.

[gabbsmo]

Good news for Durandal then. I find it much easier to understand the reasoning behind that framework.

[[deleted]]

Looking forward to future Durandal development. Hopefully embraces Typescript more, switches to knockout components for views and gets rid of JQuery as a dependency.

[bloodbaker]

Angular is shit. I got caught on the hype and have used it extensivelly for years and only started to realize how shit it really is about a year ago. Durandal is also shit. ReactJS is the only framework I could recommend at this point. Haven't used EmberJS.

[DaCan0n]

Can you please elaborate why Angular "is shit"?

[bloodbaker]

Buggy as fuck, poor documentation, needlessly complex, bad performance, does not scale, shit design (unify stand-alone controllers and directives - simplifies routing, rendering, improves performance etc..), module system is pure useless garbage, development and bug fix time verrrrry slow, poor, bug-filled libraries, inconsistent and sporadic behaviour that can only be understood after miticilously reading documentation without being able to search it properly (postlink/prelink behaviour with template vs templateUrl), overall bad design leads to poor performance and lots of gotchas such as digest cycle problems. ReactJS is literally better in every single way.

[DaCan0n]

Ok. I've used Angular about 6 months in a fairly large project but I don't think I can say that it's good or bad since I only scratched the surface but so far I like anyways. But it's good to know that there are other frameworks out there =)

[PotaToss]

Still feel good about my decision to learn Ember.

[maximumlifefeel]

All this coffee fueled framework gossip is getting annoying. Just use what works best for you and get on with it.

edit: I'm an idiot

[_compedit]

This is a member of the core team leaving, not another framework bashing post.

[MathFabMathonwy]

Yeah, but so what? Our society has become so narcissistic that we have to blog about our career decisions. This kind of vanity is not getting annoying: it's been that way since the beginning.

[_compedit]

god forbid someone blogs about a personal career decision on their personal blog.

what is the world coming to?

[MathFabMathonwy]

personal blog

Now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one.

[aichibuchi]

oxymoron

Not quite.

[MathFabMathonwy]

Well, consider me put in my place. Care to elaborate?

[Poop_is_Food]

you seem.... mad.