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Discussion on: Learning Angular 5 as a React and Vue Developer

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Stephen Belovarich

Angular bundles can be smaller in comparison to React. Not only is a “hello world” bundle comparable to Preact in Angular 6.0.0, there are standardized tools for building Angular that allow for lazyloading and server side rendering. It just depends on how you build and deploy Angular. Once you gzip the bundle the size is dramatically reduced. Bundle with Closure Complier in ADVANCED mode and see the bundle size shrink even more.

I prefer Angular over Vue and React for one reason alone. The architecture of an Angular app is based on a stable and sensible contract maintained by the community, I can understand how this is a turn off for some developers who want to have more control, but when working on a team Angular can scale better than any JavaScript framework or library I’ve ever worked with. The Angular community is awesome, lots of helpful developers out there. Angular is good for developers who want a robust architecture and would like to sqeeze every bit of performance out of web applications at scale.