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A comment on Angular 5.0.0. Parent comment

Re:Angular 5.0.0 by Raphmedia on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:37PM (#15605248)
Angular, React, etc. are nothing but a bunch of pre-written lines of code that does data binding. Quality lines of codes with a lot of candies, but in the end it's only a bunch of JS lines.

There are no obligations whatsoever to keep your project cutting edge and even less of reason to migrate to a more popular framework. It's not as if browser support for Angular 1 would stop.

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Re:Angular 5.0.0 by ferdbold on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @05:30PM (#15605641)
True, but it's nice to be able to use the newer features of your framework as they come out. Positive QoL changes in an API are always welcome
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Re:Angular 5.0.0 by Raphmedia on Thursday November 02, 2017 @11:49AM (#15611449)
It is, but you have to balance it out. Updating an entire app to a new major version (without backward compatibility) simply to use let's say a new API wrapper or syntactic sugar is a waste of time. If the app works fine, there's no need to migrate.
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