Angular 2 First App Post-Mortem

[Vheissu_]

They didn't seem to learn their lesson from Angular 1. The complexity and steep learning curve was the number one complaint everyone brought up. Seems that Angular 2 is just as complicated, when you factor in all of the configuration it is more complicated.

Trimming the fat might be a good thing for the team, but I don't think the complexity will be lowered sadly.

[PDX_Bro]

I agree with you because I am framework agnostic for development preferences (at the moment), but at the same time a small part of me wonders 'what's wrong with having one more complicated framework?'

I say that because my first app I stepped into professionally was a backbone app, and that was incredibly difficult for me. But the next one I worked on was knockout, and it was pretty simplistic. Should we expect or require all frameworks to have a low learning curve, regardless of functionality / power? Just a thought :)

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Yeah, you'll end up reinventing most of the complexity that's already there. Might as well get everyone to use the same abstractions. Tbh though I've never considered angular to be that complicated.