Comment by Andrew Wooldridge on "So many people have told me not to learn Angular because it's a nightmare or headache. How can this framework be so popular and so loathed?"

CommentSo many people have told me not to learn Angular because it's a nightmare or headache. How can this framework be so popular and so loathed?

Andrew Wooldridge

eBay WebDev

Jan 26, 2017

Stay as far away from Angular as you possibly can. It's popular with "boilerplate" developers and for SPA's but it falls apart with more complex applications. If you have a choice, choose something else. Anything else. But that's just my own opinion having had to work with it on a large site and pulling out hair, teeth, eyes, and just about everything else working with it...

estevan carlos benson

Artist & Technologist

Jan 26, 2017

So in a sense people mistake it as suitable for larger applications when it shouldn't be used for that? Sounds understandable.

I had no issues creating a large SaaS application using Angular. If you keep up to date with plugins, and organize your folder structure, and create a good pattern you will have success with AngularJS. I recommend it to anybody who needs to develop a SPA. To those who ran into issues I feel bad for since they are used to flexibility of other frameworks. Having 12 developers in my team, AngularJS allowed us to keep us organized and communicate about constraints that framework puts. In many cases where we got frustrated we realized that framework was correct and we arranged the changes to our code that resulted in tremendous improvements. Keep using Angular it's good for your coding skills.

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