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Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? by igammarays on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:50AM (#18831205)
My safe enterprise monolith stack for long term maintainability and high productivity is:

Backend: Django

Realtime/DB: Realm + Postgres

Frontend: Angular

Surprised few have mentioned Angular yet. It is highly opinionated unlike React, and backed by a giant unlike Vue. Seems like a safer enterprise choice.

Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? by tinyvm on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:16AM (#18831476)
> It is highly opinionated unlike React

Agree on that point , I like Angular because it's opinionated compared to React.

> and backed by a giant unlike Vue

Strongly disagree , Vue is backed by many large corporations and unlike AngularJS was designed to guarantee backward compatibility.

AngularJS not being compatible with Angular is what has killed for good the frameworks and left thousands of entreprises in dust when they believed angular would become a standard because "it's backed by a giant".

Workings for banking sector , I've many customers build CRM or KYC applications on top of Nuxt. Developers love the Vue ecosystem.

> Seems like a safer enterprise choice.

Strongly disagree here as well.

Angular is a great framework but it has absolutely unacceptable build size,

A "Hello World" using Angular 7 with Ivy Rendering is 500KB+ ( tested this morning ). This is not acceptable for modern frameworks to be that big.

Vue and React stay largely under 100KB in terms of build size.

They are lots of scenarios where picking Angular over Vue & React would made things more complex for a project.

Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? by gitgud on Saturday January 05, 2019 @09:20AM (#18831736)
Angular is notorious for breaking compatibility. They're constantly redesigning and breaking the API of random components.

The best parts about Angular are; the dependency injection system and the opinionated component templates.

Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? by jf- on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:36AM (#18831337)
It is. Angular 7 and .NET core are a particularly good pairing.

I’d go further and say this is a good combination for any team who want sound frameworks with out-of-the-box functionality, without having to research the ecosystem and discriminate between lots of third party modules.

Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? by h1d on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:34AM (#18831539)
Safe or not, people choose over productivity.

Worst case, if it's popular enough, the nature of open source will handle itself and finds a new maintainer.