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Is Angular still relevant in 2022?

Tom Smykowski on January 01, 2022

Angular is still developed. Last years performance improvements (Ivy engine) causes build time to be fast and comparable to React. Also interactive...

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Tal Rofe • Jan 2 '22

There is use for Angular and use for React.
In my opinion, React for small-medium projects. Rest - Angular.

Tom Smykowski • Jan 3 '22

I know what you have in mind. However I wonder if I'd choose React for my small medium projects.. Because setting up and wiring React setup is much more time consuming than Angular. Maintaining all libraries around React as well. Taught call

Kumar Nitesh • Jan 4 '22

I am not sure from where this idea 'React for small or medium project' has originated, but React is use to build Facebook.com, which in no means a small or medium web application. I have work on both React and Angular, and as a new JS developer I feel React is faster to setup and start working on compared to Angular.

Tom Smykowski • Jan 4 '22

It is really not clear what Facebook uses for the frontend. Maybe somewhere there is React, but it does not seem to be nowhere near React we all use. It is just different scale of a project.

What makes setting up Angular harder for you than React?

Kumar Nitesh • Jan 4 '22 • Edited

Here is an article from FB engineering team
engineering.fb.com/2020/05/08/web/...

and an excerpt from the same

Today, we’re sharing the lessons we’ve learned while rearchitecting Facebook.com, using React (a declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces) and Relay (a GraphQL client for React).

Kumar Nitesh • Jan 4 '22 • Edited

and I am not saying Angular is not relevant, it's relevant and much needed framework. I am just commenting on the fact that React is also for large project, and not only FB but tons of other companies (including mine) uses it.