The Reality of Working With Angular in 2024

Angular 17 or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

[brianbuckles]

Part of the reason why there are so many NPM downloads of older versions of Angular and AngularJS is because of downloads in continuous integration build pipelines from companies that can't afford to upgrade, or don't want to spend the money to upgrade. Architects who selected AngularJS or Angular years ago for their companies have screwed their companies. Now their companies have to support multiple versions of Angular in their build pipelines. Where I work now, we have to support AngularJS through Angular 15, it's a freaking nightmare.

[bolabello]

The official Google YouTube videos demonstrating Angular 17 are absolutely awful.

[Hotel_India_Oscar]

You're absolutely correct about companies still using AngularJS, I work for the biggest health insurance company in the United States, and we are STILL using AngularJS, we've had a well-publicized data breach. To this day, we're still trying to replace AngularJS.

[georgestevenson]

Part of the problem is that AngularJS or early Angular was selected by a manager with little to no front-end experience, or an architect, or principal engineer that selected Angular and then leave the company after a few years, now the company is stuck with a bloated framework, and they can't keep up with the aggressive release cadence of Angular.

[trishdoyle]

So true, working with AngularJS in 2024 is a nightmare.

[brownpatriot]

In the US, there are still a lot of companies using AngularJS.

[shanewhite]

There isn't anything in Angular 17 that can't be accomplished in React or Vue, with less time and work.

[Bill_Gates_Junior]

Seems like companies that uses Angular are always behind on the version, by at least 5+ versions behind.

[tarquin]

Man sucks to be an rxjs Angular developer. I absolutely love it and really dislike React yet everybody else thinks differently

[charlietangomike]

I work for a company of about 100 people in New York State, I still use AngularJS, and quite honestly, we do not have a path for migrating off AngularJS 😭

[FrankBuberOrleans]

Maybe Angular 20 will be much better 🤣

[pinotcolony]

You would be shock how many people in IT don't know the difference between AngularJS and Angular in 2024. 🤦‍♀

[Nesbiteme]

Angular is less of a "programming" language when combined with RXJS than it is a book of magical gotcha spells that have nothing to do with programing and more with just keeping up with arbitrary syntax and breaking changes that claim to usher in a "renaissance" for Angular XX.+. Honestly, "declarative" programming is not programming, it is just magical spells. It is so bad right now that by the time we finish upgrading one version of Angular a new version is ready to go. If you combine this with Ionic and Capacitor just throw in the towel.