The most compelling reason to learn Angular in 2023

It turns out that Angular might be a little more popular than we all think, and the job opportunities for Angular might also be going unnoticed.

This video presents some compelling reasons for why you might want to learn Angular in 2023.

#angular #frontend #react

0:00 An important lesson
0:59 Major framework usage
1:51 Angular jobs
3:03 Thoughts
3:40 The REAL reason

[vinichab]

I've been using Angular professionally since 2018, and I absolutely love it!

[JBuchmann]

My first JS framework job was with Angular, in an area where probably 2-3x more jobs was for React. One thing to consider is that if there are less Angular jobs in your area, then there are probably a lot less Angular devs too to compete with. So your odds of landing a good job may be just as good. That all said, my job now has me doing React for a couple years, but I still keep up with Angular with my fun side project app.

[daniellaerachannel]

Angular is the most in demand topic in Switzerland

[mirzaleka]

As a software develpment student I remember seeing trendy videos, blog and twitter posts about React and unreasonable hate for Angular, but when I got my first job everyone asked if I'm comfortable to work with Angular. Funny enough from all of the FE job opportunities I'm getting, it's mostly Angular position from larger corps and React from startups.
Agree on point that you should be familiar with different frameworks and technologies.

[vredurs]

I’ve been developing using angular since v.4 and I think it’s a great framework. I can’t see that react would do big enterprise applications better than angular. I’m not saying it’s a worse fit, just that it won’t do it better

[mr.nobody]

Angular and .NET Core 7 running on Red Hat 9 and AWS, the best setup for reliability 👌

[additionaddict]

I like the approach by the dev team. They aren’t competing to be the biggest but aim to make steady improvements willing to borrow ideas from other frameworks.

[herotyc]

Angular is the most complete and mature framework (I have been working on big projects using react and vue). The team working in the framework is making great advances. And I hope more people can join the team and speed up angular development. Recently, many new features arrived to the framework, providing more flexible ways of working (standalone components, typed forms, inject function), without breaking anything. The migration provided by angular between versions is fantastic. One day esbuild will be a reality in angular, I have made some tests and it is super fast. I hope more people use angular, I understand that angular is more appealing for developers that have a backgound in computer science (or... let's say... old enough that one day they made a program using delphi). I really hope the angular documentation was more complete, I had hard times myself trying to understand things, and often I had to go to the source code, specially for forms. Thank you for the video. I'm subscribing.

[Manuel-DaSilva]

I have felt into this bubble few times, and it gives you a lot of anxiety. I find the best solution is to focus in a professional tool which is popular and use other one which is less popular or secure for your personal projects to keep all fresh.

[codewithnacho]

I have developed with React and Angular. React always starts well and it's easy to create a quick MVP but the architecture gets crazy really fast. But I've seen angular project last longer with their same architecture. Plus it come with everything from the get got. It's harder to understand and learn but it's so much worth it.

[adambickford]

You can't look at a framework or language without the context. For example, angular is very popular in banking and other 'enterprises'. Those code bases are usually very long lived, had many contributors, tech debt and a ton of literal rules and regulations around it. Thats just going to have a negative emotional response compared to that svelt side-of-desk solo project or startup cowboy gig in nextjs.

Also consider job quality/culture/pay. Banks and other 'enterprises' pay a lot better but are more likely to use the 'lame' frameworks. It, along w/the dress code and uber PC hr department usually result in cash money. Personally, when you're talking 10's of thousands per year USD, i'm more than happy to use Java and Angular!

[jomaramomas]

I'll add Angular to my skillset this year.

[SamiullahKhan]

I never thought Josh, you can come up with such a good opinion video.

[loganmurray]

Like most people first starting out I felt pressured to learn React so I did. Then got a job having never touched Angular and found that it was much easier syntactically and programmatically to understand. And I love it.

[unimovi]

I've used both Angular and React but i tend to come back to Angular everytime I have a new project. Sure it's difficult to get into initially, but once your in, you love working with it!

[tntg]

This is a good exemple of the trend trap. Trends are more often than not, created by whoever benefit from them. Exploiting the herd behavior in humans to make them make choices that are not necessarily in their interests.
It works for picking up a framework, for politics, for all sort of concepts.
The best framework is the one you have the opportunity to master.
If you are young, you're first job will get you to that point if you enjoy what you learn. If you want to be the sharpest knife, stick to one framework and learn it fully.
Being average in many frameworks can be a waste of energy and time.
That is because they each evolve rapidly and you wil never catch up with all of them.

[rhatalos]

I agree that job availability is important. In Austria I've been flooded with Angular jobs. Still I think Angular needs to push hard on technologies like Analog (Vite + SSR) or it will be a dead framework.

[RobertLeeuwerink]

Thanks Joshua! dont get why angular gets this much "hate" but I really like the way it works. And for alot of tooling software, it is really great/ very flexible . I still prefer it over React as i dont need to think about what packages I need to add to get basic things resolved such as routing and state. Also as this framework works so well for business tools it always requires a login so SEO doesn't really matter that much.

[nechar-joshi]

I have been using both Angular and React for a long time. Angular is still my favourate.

[kumaramresh]

Angular is the c++ of web dev frameworks !!