I'm a UI architect of a major SaaS company who maintains our 4-5 products between 8-10 feature teams. I've worked in the web industry for 11 years.
My job is to enforce some semblance of sanity between very smart and clever engineers without heavily impacting their ability to deliver. My job entails much cat-herding, setting norms, and maintaining expectations.
Every day I thank the gods we went with Angular. It has saved us countless times, every refactor is a joy, every upgrade is painless, every component is easily shared.
I don't have to constantly worry about XSS, I don't have to explain how I want things structured (because the build fails if they don't structure it right), and I don't have to worry that if someone leaves, no one will know how to pick up and modify their project.
Do developers hate it? Absolutely! They want to get work done fast and pump out cool, clever, smart work! They see Angular as a hinderance to the objective of "doing" because now they need to know about all these damn opinions that aren't their own. Angular isn't for them, it's for everyone else.
By contrast, React enables selfish coding, which while totally okay when you have a few people and clear lines of ownership, does not scale well without strictly defined responsibilities and amazing cultural levels of synchronous decision-making.
My job is to enforce some semblance of sanity between very smart and clever engineers without heavily impacting their ability to deliver. My job entails much cat-herding, setting norms, and maintaining expectations.
Every day I thank the gods we went with Angular. It has saved us countless times, every refactor is a joy, every upgrade is painless, every component is easily shared.
I don't have to constantly worry about XSS, I don't have to explain how I want things structured (because the build fails if they don't structure it right), and I don't have to worry that if someone leaves, no one will know how to pick up and modify their project.
Do developers hate it? Absolutely! They want to get work done fast and pump out cool, clever, smart work! They see Angular as a hinderance to the objective of "doing" because now they need to know about all these damn opinions that aren't their own. Angular isn't for them, it's for everyone else.
By contrast, React enables selfish coding, which while totally okay when you have a few people and clear lines of ownership, does not scale well without strictly defined responsibilities and amazing cultural levels of synchronous decision-making.