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Discussion on: Moving From Angular to Vue : A vuetiful journey

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Okke Tijhuis

Angular 4+ is much better than Angular 1, no doubt. I've been using it on a project for a while now and it has its own set of issues.

I like typescript but I only see it as documentation / improving the IDE experience. There are no runtime checks so you still have to be very careful.

RxJS is also very nice but I've seen most developers struggle with how to use observables properly. And they are everywhere in Angular.

While Angular 4+ will be great for a lot of applications, the "all batteries included" part can actually work against you. A lot of decisions have been made for you and trust me, once you're building a more complex/dynamic application you'll often be fighting against the framework. We've struggled with things that would have been simple with Vue (like highly dynamic components). And we still haven't found decent solutions for some of them. Most of them feel hacky.

Personally I'll avoid using Angular if I have the chance. It's just too restrictive for me.