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by flipperto 1657 days ago
That is absolutely not true. While React has a big piece of the market right now, it has not "clearly won this ballgame". Both Vue and Svelte are very much active in the industry and gaining terrain fast.

Frontend development is an extremely fast moving field and claiming a "clear winner" makes no sense.

Having said that, I agree that Angular may not be the best option in the general sense, but given that it is a Google-backed framework, they probably have the best talent available to build tools efficiently.

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Look at how many jobs being offered in angular, vue or svelte vs react, in any given freelance job portal. It's 1 to 5 at best. If you want to punish your project and have issues hiring from a limited pool, sure go ahead.
Yes, most current job offerings may be for React, but Angular had that spot a couple of years ago and ruby on rails was the cool new thing to work with before that. My point is that this is not a permanent thing. Technologies change, preferences change. React will be replaced with better tools for the job (IMO Vue and Svelte are better designed than React), I am sure of that. Besides, if you are going to hire by limiting your pool by frameworks, you are doing things wrong. Any decent developer that can work in an Angular codebase should have no problem with React, Svelte or Vue.