I agree with you 100% here. I have been working in Angular for a long time and feel like I have a pretty strong understanding on how it works. Like you, I will not build another app with Angular (or any framework for that matter). I don't think I encountered as many bugs as you have, but I have spent too much time trying to figure out how to do it the Angular way or the RxJS way. With modules, web components, promises, and async/await, I feel like you can now write very clean code with just JS. So, that is what I am going to do going forward.
Re:Angular 9.0
by stringyham on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:46AM
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If you can write the app you need with "modules, web components, promises, and async/await" then you never needed Angular to begin with.
And that's a good thing, frameworks/libraries are never the answer to everything and are a decision to be weighed carefully.
Agreed. I think the increased support for modules and web components across major browsers in the past year has really given me the confidence that I can go without Angular/React/Vue and still have a well organized project. I still really miss the binding and routing of Angular. But, that is a small compromise.
Yet I agree, a lot of things in my project is wrong and maybe blaming the framework for the mess is too easy. But I really do not enjoy working with Angular. Also, learning to use RxJS was a painful experience full of frustration.