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by softwaredoug 1702 days ago
Im curious what you anticipate the longevity of your app to be? Lots of things are possible. My last company has a fairly critical Angular 1 app from early 2010s. Guess what, it works! It’s ~9 years later and going strong. It has a big enough team to keep the lights on, and only now is it probably reaching a serious inflection point.

But IMO if I had to do it again and cared about longevity I’d avoid a framework. I would probably also avoid JavaScript, and maybe even putting much complexity in the web tier. Instead I’d probably find a way to get my business logic in a CLI and make any clients fairly disposable.

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I'd be happy if we migrated to Blazor and it lasted for 10 years. Kudos to AngularJS, which is still on LTS until the end of 2021.

It might as well happen with Blazor, if it's kept further maintained as a part of .NET normal release cycles for years to come, and won't be stripped out in some next major release.