When I look at job postings and see "React" I go "ugh" these days and find myself looking for Angular instead. That's the complete opposite of my thoughts from just two years ago.
I would still rather use something else (instead or React or Angular) but 1) most jobs in my area are asking for one of those, and 2) I'm actually starting to lean towards Angular even for personal projects.
Angular is great these days, and they're making really nice improvements.
I'm logged in, using Zed Preview, and selecting the model does nothing. In the configuration it says I "must accept the terms of service to use this provider" but I don't see where and how I can do that.
Having stuff included does have advantages, but, in my opinion, some of those included things in Angular are really badly designed (I'm looking at you, Forms)
I never use Angular for personal projects, and I have been using TypeScript exclusively for years. I.e. other libraries work really well with TypeScript as well (sometimes actually better than Angular, in my experience)
I find the dev experience of Angular very frustrating, and many things seem overly complicated or not very well designed, in my opinion. That's why I would choose something else (anything, really)
However, if it was noticeably faster than alternatives then I would just deal with those frustrations, personally. User experience (including speed) trumps developer experience.
After having worked on an Angular project for a little over a year I'm at the point where I'm very unlikely to accept another job where they use Angular. It's so frustrating to work with, and every week I find another corner in the framework that, in my opinion, is very poorly designed and/or implemented.
Angular, to me, feels like it was designed by Java developers - classes and bloat* everywhere. Most code, when compared to a React etc. version, just seems like a wall of text on my screen.
But, this might make it more approachable to developers that come from a Java background - I see this at my current employer.
(*) By bloat I mean that I often feel like I should have been able to implement whatever feature I just implemented in half the amount of code.
I never really had an opinion about Jeff Bezos, but after seeing this video and how he's interrupting Shatner to spray some champagne - man, I can't say I like Jeff a single bit.
I would still rather use something else (instead or React or Angular) but 1) most jobs in my area are asking for one of those, and 2) I'm actually starting to lean towards Angular even for personal projects.
Angular is great these days, and they're making really nice improvements.