I wish Angular dropped their weird compiler that's tight coupled to tsc and moved into more pluggable approach so you can use it with whatever TS compiler. App and unit test cold build times are still crap, but at least with a coding agent you care about this less.
Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?
I would be more happy if it would be just one of those..
Promised - async
Observables - streams
Signals - reactivity
Until this release (if you only use stable features) using forms meant dealing with observables too, even if you just want to read data when submitting a form and validating some data on change/blur.
And often you’ll find that your data from promises, observables and signals need to interact with each other, which can be annoying.
Fortunately the situation with signals and their async usage is improving, and iirc the Angular team wants to make rxjs optional, but until it is Angular can be a confusing mess on some points.
For the rest, RxJS is cool where you actually need it and want it.
With that said, the autocomplete example which parent mentioned, does seem well made. Was just surprising to see such a basic mistake in the documentation for the accessibility stuff, one would think they would take extra care to get it right there, as that's what people (and LLMs...) will read and retain.
import {signal} from "@angular/core"
import {form} from "@angular/forms/signals"
Other than that. Looking forward to try Angular again after a decade of absence. I think it looks pretty good.
I'm not on the Angular development team or anything, though I do use Angular at $DAY_JOB and I'm overall perfectly fine with the framework and its tooling. However, the grass might be greener elsewhere; I'm just not familiar with it!
Has anyone done a modern Angular vs. React comparison that's not an AI slop article?
I'm also curious if it's "simple made easy" for performant applications. React is arguably "simple made hard", but there are notable, highly performant applications written with it (Linear comes to mind).
Source: Just look at what's been in the last couple years of updates.
Till this day I remember this fondly as it gave me so much ease of control of the application’s many complex states. Especially when I nowadays deal with all sorts of false-prophets in forms of hooks and what ever reactive primitive du-jour (don’t get Me wrong they are 80% of the time the better choice, it’s just that they don’t scale).
What’s today’s version of complex state management in Angular-Land?
I would still rather use something else (instead or React or Angular) but 1) most jobs in my area are asking for one of those, and 2) I'm actually starting to lean towards Angular even for personal projects.
Angular is great these days, and they're making really nice improvements.
I hope more teams give it serious consideration as I just am not excited about dealing with React and it's numerous spinoffs.