I find myself liking almost every one of these articles that talks about how "you shouldn't use popular JavaScript framework X because <list of reasons why>" a little too much.
After many years of dealing with various frontend frameworks I've essentially taken a curmudgeon attitude with many of them and find it far easier to simply write my applications using just JavaScript and maybe some messaging library to get the decoupling I want (I've posted on HN before about my little library called msngr.js that I use in many of my projects now because I am in love with messaging patterns). I find these far easier to understand than any of the frameworks that provide "magic" of sorts where automatic things happen for you.
The last time I used Angular was picking up a project other developers did. It had a good separation but felt very overly complex. But I feel that way with most frameworks (especially react).
I think the key takeaway here is that Angular, React, etc; these frameworks are not for everyone and are not for every project. If a framework forces a way of development that helps keep productivity higher then it's probably a good fit at least for that team. As a plus almost any of these frameworks can be used with great success for prototyping. So I think there is always value there.
After many years of dealing with various frontend frameworks I've essentially taken a curmudgeon attitude with many of them and find it far easier to simply write my applications using just JavaScript and maybe some messaging library to get the decoupling I want (I've posted on HN before about my little library called msngr.js that I use in many of my projects now because I am in love with messaging patterns). I find these far easier to understand than any of the frameworks that provide "magic" of sorts where automatic things happen for you.
The last time I used Angular was picking up a project other developers did. It had a good separation but felt very overly complex. But I feel that way with most frameworks (especially react).
I think the key takeaway here is that Angular, React, etc; these frameworks are not for everyone and are not for every project. If a framework forces a way of development that helps keep productivity higher then it's probably a good fit at least for that team. As a plus almost any of these frameworks can be used with great success for prototyping. So I think there is always value there.