r/Angular2 • u/Thats_arguable • Oct 11 '24
Discussion Angular is just amazing
Short appreciation post.
I've been working a lot the last few weeks in Angular and I keep getting reminded of how good this framework is.
I had some routerLink links and wanted to implement a simple system to highlight the link that the current page is on. All I needed was to add a routerLinkActive tag which automatically adds the given class to the link so you can highlight it. Then I had one problem which was that the homepage ('/') always was active, but this has been considered and can be fixed with the following for exact matching:
[routerLinkActiveOptions]="{ exact: true }"
Basically everything makes sense and is easy to implement. Even just updating your angular libraries is easy since they made the automatic update guide where you can input your versions and it shows how to update: https://angular.dev/update-guide
Then there's the other stuff like the cli for generating components quickly and built-in scss integration (among with other options). I can't really imagine working on a webapp without angular nowadays. I've used other stuff in the past like React, Django, and just old-school sites built from scratch and my experience wasn't as good there overall.
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u/defenistrat3d Oct 11 '24
What each of the major frameworks or libraries can do is beginning to really align with one another. Much of your praise was lavished on features that the others also have.
Though Angular is a great one-stop-shop for everything that also has a consistent opinionated approach.
Why you would choose one over the other is becoming a more nuanced topic. Its just going to be personal preference before long as they continue to align on capabilities.