Absolutely, it’s a fantastic choice. I’ve found getting started up with it to be much faster than similar React/Vue sites, I can rely on most features being pretty battle tested when they get into Angular, performance improvements continue being implemented and there’s less variability between Angular projects compared to other frameworks. YMMV however depending on teams and projects.
How has it been trying to find Angular devs and online resources (Q&A, etc.?)
I loved AngularJS v1 when it first came out. The Angular 2+ learning curve was high and React seemed to just leapfrog over it and explode in popularity. In the last five years or so, I've only seen one Angular codebase and it was really hard to troubleshoot it due to the lack of easily available "me too" questions online. I haven't heard it discussed at all in a good decade or so now; even if the code is good, it seems like the mindshare is completely gone, at least in my circles?
Great questions. Anecdotally it feels like there’s been an increase in online references, though maybe not comparable to other frameworks. It’s still more than it was.
As for finding developers we haven’t had too many problems. There’s been a good amount of great, startup minded engineers who did angular at big enterprises and want something smaller. Less than react devs by a lot, but overall the quality on average was higher.
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Serious question: does anyone start new projects these days using angular?
Absolutely, it’s a fantastic choice. I’ve found getting started up with it to be much faster than similar React/Vue sites, I can rely on most features being pretty battle tested when they get into Angular, performance improvements continue being implemented and there’s less variability between Angular projects compared to other frameworks. YMMV however depending on teams and projects.
How has it been trying to find Angular devs and online resources (Q&A, etc.?)
I loved AngularJS v1 when it first came out. The Angular 2+ learning curve was high and React seemed to just leapfrog over it and explode in popularity. In the last five years or so, I've only seen one Angular codebase and it was really hard to troubleshoot it due to the lack of easily available "me too" questions online. I haven't heard it discussed at all in a good decade or so now; even if the code is good, it seems like the mindshare is completely gone, at least in my circles?
Great questions. Anecdotally it feels like there’s been an increase in online references, though maybe not comparable to other frameworks. It’s still more than it was.
As for finding developers we haven’t had too many problems. There’s been a good amount of great, startup minded engineers who did angular at big enterprises and want something smaller. Less than react devs by a lot, but overall the quality on average was higher.