Angular is not a framework, its a platform

Aye

You know, this could have been so much better if they made the slightest effort to adjust the various icons to the cubefaces' perspective.

The CLI one in particular is painful.

Looks more like a web sdk

Without enough coffee this morning my eyes saw :/ for http icon and I thought: angular? “yeah…same”. 😕

I could draw up the same list for pretty much any other framework though, maybe replacing one tile for another one here and there.

I would also argue that a web frontend framework should not do i18n, because in that case you tend to end up with a desync in copywrited translations between web and mobile frontends.

Forms can be competently done with HTML alone. Routing should be done in the backend.

Actually, the only thing JS should be used for is animations.

In which case you don't need tests either.

@bittersweet while admitting I’m not a front end dev (at least not a good one), I think forms with html only is not real. Say you want to populate data based on earlier form input, you *could do that with html but the refreshes and state saving would be hell on users. I mean if it’s just a “send feedback form” sure, but not in any real app.

@atrabilious

OK fine:

ANGULAR

"We're an animation library. Also, we can make a form input glow red if you paste your phone number where the zipcode should go. Also there's all this templating, two way binding and virtual dom bullshit, but it's basically JQuery with more steps. Mainly used by developers who do not want to admit that senior frontend is the same as junior backend"

*ducks for cover*

@bittersweet lol. I’m an old dev (as previously stated) and I still use jquery. Why? Cuz it reliably works and there is a damn tool for everything. I take so much shit for using it tho. “Just use angular” no, I don’t want a whole heavy framework for a sorting table, dick.

I know both Angular and React. I still prefer Angular but majority of jobs now is React.

NgRx RxJs Angular, reactive forms approach Forms Array, Tailwind + AntDesign = yummy!

Angular is hard to learn but after that it is sooo satisfying to use.

What I like about React is the NextJS framework. I think I don't like React alone.

For transparency, what I don't like about Angular:
- big learning curve
- big file size (I think they have small bundle size by now)
- maybe bad online documentation

How does http even count here? Angular is a halfbrained runaway idea based on the gamble that your site will be faster if downloaded all at once and run largely in the front end.

They didn't invent or contribute to http they just use it

@AlgoRythm

With Angular you don’t have to download external NPM packages as Axios to make requests. That’s why.

@yehaaw you never did. There's the browser-native fetch api and god forbid you need internet explorer there's an XMLHttpRequest polyfill for it

@AlgoRythm

Well, anyhow, you’ve asked why they have HTTP separated and that’s why.

I prefer old speak over newspeak

@homo-lorens Those flat icons always made me think those were some sort of “shield” now that I read your comment I realize they are cubes and now I cannot look at them!