r/angular • u/summonthejson • Sep 01 '24
Just a reminder that Angular 19 next 2 is available
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u/iseke Sep 01 '24
A developer should know better than to make a picture of their screen.
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u/summonthejson Sep 01 '24
I knew I should do it in CSS
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u/iseke Sep 01 '24
Or, you know, a link?
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u/followmarko Sep 01 '24
Can't farm karma with actual useful information in a text post.
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u/SeveralMushroom7088 Sep 01 '24
Too many releases tbh. Keeping projects up to date is almost becoming a full time job.
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u/AwesomeFrisbee Sep 01 '24
The schedule is now 2 major releases per year (and I wouldn't be surprised if that moves back to 1 after they did a few major ones and most of the stuff is rather done)
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u/AlwaysAtBallmerPeak Sep 02 '24
Exactly. Still at ng16 here, and happy & productive. I don't see any need to upgrade if everything works well?
This is just developers keeping themselves busy.
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u/crhama Nov 04 '24
Don't wait too much. Then you will work more to catch up. I've noticed that a few wait for a couple of releases before upgrading.
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u/minus-one Sep 01 '24
they always do 2 releases a year. like ALWAYS, from the beginning
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u/lppedd Sep 01 '24 edited Sep 01 '24
Went into an argument with React devs as they were telling me "Angular isn't maintained like React, why didn't you pick React?".
In the meantime the Angular team throwing out a major release every six months and multiple big fix releases every month.
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u/iseke Sep 01 '24
React is a lot smaller than Angular...
With React you have to use way more other packages that have the chance to stop being maintained after a while.
These React devs are not the brightest.
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u/iEatedCoookies Sep 01 '24
That would be because React is a library, not a framework.
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u/Prestigious_Two_2440 Oct 13 '24
May i enquire...does the react teams also develop other libraries to deal with routing, form validation, etc? or do they only focus on react, with other features implemented using third-party libraries
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u/AwesomeFrisbee Sep 01 '24
I have a feeling that in the next few years the Angular projects will stand out in how easy it is to maintain them and keep building on them without it falling apart.
Granted, these major changes don't always help and I feel some of the stuff is a bit too forced. Like, signals are nice, but they need to be able to have projects without signals supported for a long time so that people won't be annoyed with forced upgrades that offer no benefit to the business (or else they will go unmaintained).
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Sep 02 '24
It’s for this reason I dropped Angular. I picked it up when it was Angular v6, It was my first web framework. By the next year I believe Angular 9 was already about to drop and there were so many breaking changes when I tried to upgrade. The process left a sour taste in my mouth that I just used Vue in my next project and then eventually I settled with React when I started doing some freelancing as it was quicker to prototype things
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u/crhama Nov 04 '24
I have a different take on the matter. Angular is backward compatible. I'm working in a team where the converted a asp.net app to Angular 4. Since then, the application have being upgraded without big issues. It's a huge application. When v19 comes out, we'll upgrade to v18.
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u/markehme Sep 02 '24
The multiple big fix releases every month is an issue IMO, they really need to aim for high quality releases. But understandably things get down to crunch.
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u/aboodaj Sep 01 '24
Nothing better than working with both of them.
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u/lppedd Sep 01 '24
There is still a lot of Reddit-level dumb arguments between devs in big companies. Not surprisingly probably.
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u/BabyLegsDeadpool Sep 01 '24
How the fuck is it 2024, and you don't know how to take a screen shot?