Speaking of front end frameworks, whatever happened to Angular(JS)? It seemed to be required on every other job posting, but now things seem to only ask for React or React Native.
If anonymous posters on HN are to be believed, the guy spearheading Angular as a major frontend framework got his mansion on a hill and he left. And before that the Angular developers burned down their community by breaking compatibility in the transition between 1.X and 2.0.
Develop on Google -- when you really really really want to refactor your web app every 6 months. Love me some Android version bumps -- who needs compatible API interfaces?? Never did Microsoft or Intel/AMD any favors.
I still see many job postings for Angular, mainly from government institutions and non-tech companies. In my region, Angular for the frontend and Java with Spring Boot for the backend still account for a healthy number of job postings.
I began doing AngularJS and have been doing Angular 2 for a while, as another commenter said: there are jobs still out there.
In my experience I get more Angular & Vue offers than C# and React. For what is worth I'm convinced that across the industry React jobs wages are lower. Who knows, I could be closed in my own bubble but am pretty sure the pool of react devs is bigger and this might be the reason.
Angular's fine, new versions come out regularly, often improving DX. Although I must admit that deprecation and breaking changes mentioned in the article sometimes make keeping up with updates kinda annoying. On the other hand, I'd never return to a home grown framework. Most of my problems nowadays come from business requirements and lackluster IT.
The difference in speed between Angular 1 and React was like the difference between Python and Rust. Not only was React simpler than Angular and had fewer footguns, but it was so ridiculously fast out of the box compared to Angular.
Then Google google'd and left devs high and dry with the need to rewrite their apps from Angular 1 to Angular 2+, whereas React has been relatively stable, despite some incompatibilities -- yes there are new features and new methods, but you can still do React classes.
