It's also a hiring question. React being so dominant (because it's simpler) makes building and keeping a team a lot easier. There is no question that Angular can run laps around React when it comes to software quality, utiliy, scalability, maintainability. But if it's easier to pick up, code with, and get something written faster, then companies will prefer it always... Never the engineers that know better. :)
That's what I also think, React has become so dominant, everything else (Vue, Angular) is pretty niche ... it also means that the React ecosystem is a lot bigger, and so on. Yeah well to be honest I think this race is over ...
It's a bit simplistic to ignore any framework/library just because it's not popular. If that were a good argument, there would be no need for MacOS or Linux on the desktop, because Windows is more popular, there would be no need for iOS because Android is more popular, etc.
It all comes down to what is the best tool for the job, and that itself is answered through further questions:
What is the scale of the project?
What is the team already familiar with?
What would the initial cost? (in terms of time, etc) be to learn a new tool/library/framework?
What would be the ongoing cost? (in terms of ease of maintenance for future work, etc)
I've been using Angular for about 6 years now, and the scale of the largest project I'm working on with it I don't think would be as simple or as clean were I to do in React. That codebase is almost 40,000 lines of code (although a little over half of that is unit/acceptance test code).
It's also a hiring question. React being so dominant (because it's simpler) makes building and keeping a team a lot easier. There is no question that Angular can run laps around React when it comes to software quality, utiliy, scalability, maintainability. But if it's easier to pick up, code with, and get something written faster, then companies will prefer it always... Never the engineers that know better. :)
That's what I also think, React has become so dominant, everything else (Vue, Angular) is pretty niche ... it also means that the React ecosystem is a lot bigger, and so on. Yeah well to be honest I think this race is over ...
It's a bit simplistic to ignore any framework/library just because it's not popular. If that were a good argument, there would be no need for MacOS or Linux on the desktop, because Windows is more popular, there would be no need for iOS because Android is more popular, etc.
It all comes down to what is the best tool for the job, and that itself is answered through further questions:
I've been using Angular for about 6 years now, and the scale of the largest project I'm working on with it I don't think would be as simple or as clean were I to do in React. That codebase is almost 40,000 lines of code (although a little over half of that is unit/acceptance test code).
Totally agree, just seems that React is getting ever more dominant, not saying that that's a good thing per se but it seems to be the case ...