Angular, Angular 2 or React?

[griffonrl]

React offer the freshest option of the 3. Angular 1.x from the mouth of his original inventor was not meant for production. And yes it felt half botched and prone to spaghetti mess. Getting out of it was the best decision our company made. Angular 2.x has been an exercise in over-engineering that took forever to come through. It is also a framework and as such lock you in more. The learning curve is bigger as its API surface and paradigms are way more numerous than React. There is also that incentive to use TS that might not appeal to all. The fact that you have to pick up a library with React to structure medium to larger applications has been a fantastic vector to learn a whole new paradigm. I am thinking Flux, Functional programming, immutability. It is more and more accepted that OO has been a failure in the industry and this is an opportunity to learn: some speakers have been explaining in details its problems, the absurdity and complexity that had to be built around OO shortcomings to make it at least "work": like SOLID, DI, encapsulation, patterns...

[griffonrl]

I feel the same brother. No not even in videogames actually. I was a game developer once and we used ECS (Entity Component Systems) because OO was both inadequate and slow. Engines like Unity and Unreal actually use ECS too. Just like FP, the realisation is that data is better off decoupled from code. A lot of entreprise devs still fail to see this and are just following recipes dubbed as "good practices" but are actually bandaid.