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I've worked with Angular 2-5 and it's nice; IMO a lot nicer than Angular 1.x, which I still do have to work with (supporting a customer-facing 1.6.5 app). I haven't done a big app with it yet, but from the small ones I've done I am highly confident that "modern Angular" is now better than Angular 1.x in all important ways (breadth of capabilities, reliability, tooling, etc). So I don't think there will be horror stories with Angular 5 for new projects, unless you just don't like Angular/TypeScript. It's definitely not like "going the wrong direction" from Angular 1.x, although I don't personally have any read on how it compares to Vue, or React, or Aurelia or what have you. I also haven't gone through a 1.x→modern transition (yet), so I can't really speak to that, but in preparation for doing it I've read everything I can, on this forum, various blogs, etc. I'm not looking forward to it, but on the other hand part of me thinks of course it's easier, or at least more fun, to move to something like Vue, because it's like a rewrite, or half-greenfield project. It's almost always more fun to rewrite something, although usually not advisable from any other business perspective. We don't see as many people talking/blogging about Angular anymore, but I think that's mostly because it's gotten boring. Which can be a good thing. |