[jbob2000]

Currently rewriting an app from AngularJS to Angular 7.

Biggest pain point is doing stuff outside of the angular framework. Interacting with the browser’s History API is annoying, angular splits this functionality over a few disparate modules and it’s heavily suggested you do not call the raw APIs directly, but instead deal with the tangled mess angular provides.

I had some pains when I first got started, but that was because I wasn’t doing it the “angular way”. If you find you’re writing too much code and it feels like “low-level” code, you’re probably doing it wrong. I spent a lot of time wrangling Observables and async pipes before I found patterns that were simple and met my needs.