[onemoresoop]

I started working with angular 7 this February and I have to admit the learning curve was steep at first but after the slow start I quickly built my first project and now fully appreciate its power. I also think I am lucky to have taken a stab at it in its current stages, 4+ as I lost my patience for too much noise and too many changes. I also have many praises for Visual Studio Code. The reasons you mentioned are very valid and thats the reason Angular got adopted by enterprises. The uniformity the framework imposes on the projects makes it easy for other devs to jump in, to pick up a project done by somebody else, etc..

For all people who resent SPAs, continue using all jquery and other libs for small or existing projects but do consider a framework like angular if you want to build a stable web application (or a suite of web applications), you will appreciate it after your initial dive. I also recommend a youtube channel with clear non ADD turorials: search for ‘kudvenkat angular’ on youtube.

[ohaideredevs]

Are you using the angular CLI to generate components/services? That saves a lot of time.

The thing we love about Angular is compartmentalizing everything.

[onemoresoop]

Yes, I am using Angular CLI and I love it. I'd become jaded over the years with all the Visual Studio way of creating projects, lots of dialogs, popups, template generators and in my opinion dumb boring click-click way of dealing with things where the meat is hidden from the the programmer. With the new stack I feel like I am getting a whiff of fresh air. I'm still using C#/EF to create web APIs and deal with the DB layer but on the front end i'm much happier with Angular/Node/Typescript.