Angular

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I enjoyed Angular before React, had a good run with it, it was a vibe”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “the situation with signals and their async usage is improving, and iirc the Angular team wants to make rxjs optional”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “Working with Angular became a pleasure the moment we decided to just cast our service calls to promises”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “Angular has made my programming career joy and it has not felt like work at all, all the best to angular dev team!”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “I know it too well. I built a massive Angular webapp recently (2025) outside of Google”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “finally when angular 1 was no longer maintained i discovered aurelia, in part because rob eisenberg had an interesting story about how he got invited to the angular team because of his ideas, and how he left again because he could not actually get his ideas implemented”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “When I did get eventually pressured into working on Angular it was a nightmare for several reasons”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “Modern Angular has been wonderful. A lot of the pain points people have are gone, some good parts of other frameworks (signals, single-components vs modules, etc) have been incorporated and embraced.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “migrated from Angular 4 to 18 (including ngrx and material) and didn't find it especially problematic”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “I've never had the sort of problems I[0] had with React when using Angular (1 or 2), despite the apps having more complexity”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “I found it frustrating to learn as the API had changed between versions, and when searching for help you would come across a blog post/stackoverflow answer, start implementing it and realise it didn't work in the version of Angular your project was in. Frustrating.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “my time working with Angular 1 (a time I'd rather not repeat)”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “I used to do something like that when I made a tabletop like card maker using three.js + angular 8”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-02

• “angular only for fancy pop menu and dropdown list, no angular material though, as as to keep it simple and lightweight”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-02

• “I reluctantly learned Angular after being put on a project where they were using it”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-18

• “Built in Angular after having been a full time react engineer for the better part of a decade. Man I'm sick of react haha”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-15

• “I used Angular for years before React and I do not miss having things talking to each other throw multiple lateral levels.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “Angular is still our go-to when working with .NET APIs especially for enterprise-level apps where structure, scalability, and long-term maintainability matter. Angular's strong typing and CLI tools pair nicely with .NET backend workflows.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-18

• “I'd go Angular front end, NestJS backend, both deployed to app services via an Azure pipeline. This gives you 100% control over functionality and can be achieved for pretty cheap”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2025-04-09

• “I'd add Angular to the list of frameworks that are easy to test”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-02-18