Honestly, what I love most is that Angular lets me focus on building instead of setting things up. Coming from React, I was used to picking libraries for routing, forms, and state and then making them work together. With Angular, all of that is already there and it just works, so I spend my time on the actual features. The component structure also fits how I think, and it's made the UI in my projects feel clean and consistent without much effort.
I also really appreciate not having to worry about performance myself. Things like lazy loading and bundle optimization are almost free, so the app stays fast even as it grows. When I worked on an internal AI tool, streaming AI responses into the UI and connecting third-party components like Syncfusion felt natural, and I never felt like I was fighting the framework.
What keeps me choosing Angular for enterprise work is how easy it is to maintain. Every project follows the same patterns, so when someone new joined our team they could find their way around quickly, and I could jump into code I didn't write without getting lost. The docs are great when I get stuck, and since it's free and backed by Google, it's an easy choice to justify for long-term projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My biggest frustration is that Angular gives you everything by default, and it's all tightly coupled. That's great when you need it, but even small apps end up carrying the weight of the whole framework, and the initial bundle feels heavy compared to lighter options. You can optimize it, but that takes extra effort, and you can't easily swap out parts of the framework you don't like.
The learning curve is also steep. Between RxJS, dependency injection, decorators, and change detection, it took me a while to feel comfortable, and I've seen new developers struggle with it too. There's a lot of boilerplate for simple things, and some error messages, like the classic ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenChecked, are confusing until you really understand what's happening under the hood.
Keeping up with the framework can be tiring too. Angular changes a lot between versions, and right now there are two ways of doing many things, like NgModules versus standalone components, or RxJS versus signals. So tutorials and Stack Overflow answers are often outdated, and codebases end up with a mix of old and new patterns. Customizing the look of Angular Material to match our design system was also harder than I expected. And compared to React, the community and third-party library ecosystem feel smaller, so sometimes the exact package you need just isn't there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
