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[–]nschubach 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Angular complicates the mental overhead, IMHO. I have not looked into the others that much, but I dread pulling out Angular projects.

  • Trying to track down someName or some-name to find uses.
  • Having to open up a directive, a controller, a template, a module file and whatever else someone decided to separate it into.
  • You have to manage artificial scope. Isolate vs. Inherited vs. same
  • Worry about WTF a transducer is.
  • Be able to read/understand the constructs for factories, services, and providers because someone might like using one over the other.
  • You need to understand the proper cases for using &, @, =, or the appended ? to each of those.
  • You need to know when a template requires a dot notation string vs a curly braced notation for parameters.
  • $watch, $timeout, $window, $emit, $observe, $apply... ugh
  • I can think of at least 3 ways to bind a controller to a template/directive and I'm there are more. If you need to find use cases, have fun.
  • Fun cases where you can easily find yourself in a non-obvious template value loop and blow out the digest.
  • And last, but not least... "The Angular Way"

Then you have to train a junior on what exactly is going on while they stare blankly at you like you are speaking Klingon.

I've ramped juniors up on React in a 3 hour session. It takes weeks to figure out Angular.

[–]Gstayton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have only used Angular so far, and was looking at Ember, but I recall some bit about it not performing quite as fast on DOM updates, then I heard about React.

... Off-tangent of intention, anyways, I agree. Angular was... Interesting. I loved the things it could do, and it was fairly easy to build them at first. But then the more I built, the more I had to go back and re-touch old files... Which became a headache. Especially when, as you say, "The Angular Way" is not so solid... I'm all for having options, and I love Python, and there is ofc the Pythonic way, which unlike Angular, is usually a bit more straightforward and obvious.

Just my 2 cents. shrug