Category: 2. Disadvantage
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Frequent version releases
The Google team tries to keep the Angular framework relevant, so it releases new versions two times a year. Unfortunately, the benefit of having up-to-date technology goes hand in hand with the necessity to update Angular-based solutions very often. In most cases, it causes no problem, but sometimes the abundance of Angular versions can become…
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Decline in popularity
With the advent of newer frameworks like VueJS and ReactJS, Angular has seen a downfall in its popularity. Just a few years ago, developers were mainly debating on whether they should be using Angular or React for their projects. But over the course of the last couple of years, we saw a growth of interest…
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Too many versions
Angular has been evolving. It started out as a JavaScript framework AngularJS and now the current version is Angular 9 with a total of 6 major releases in between. This can cause confusion especially for beginners. Many a time, beginners struggle to understand the versioning. I have seen students learning a version of the framework,…
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Limited SEO Capabilities
Angular is just great for building powerful single-page web applications. However, as with all single-page web applications, there is a disadvantage when it comes to search engine optimization. Usually single-page applications are rendered on the client side and therefore web crawlers of search engines like Google and Bing are not able to see the complete…
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Steeper learning curve
While Angular is great, it may not be the case for a complete beginner. Even if you have experience with HTML, CSS and JS, you may feel a little bit uncomfortable with the steep learning curve that it has. It brings its own notions and philosophy to the table that you need to work around.…
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Steep learning curve
There exists an opinion that Angular is a rather challenging front-end development framework to master. Although many Angular features, such as component-based development, simplify software engineers’ work, boilerplate code and injected dependencies ensure a rather steep learning curve for Angular. In addition, Angular is based on TypeSrcipt instead of JavaScript, which is the most popular…
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SEO limitations
Angular is known as an excellent solution for building excellent single-page web applications. Such apps are rendered on the client’s side, which prevents web crawlers or search engines, such as Google or Bing, from seeing the full structures and content of relevant web pages. This disrupts the website’s listing in search engine results. As a…
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A lot of boilerplate code
Some developers consider Angular to be a rather verbose framework. All the components are independent and can be managed separately, but their management is not an easy task. Up to five files may be required for a single component in Angular. A developer should inject dependencies and declare the component lifecycle interfaces. With all these…