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It is being used for traditional sites. by Fullofkittens 10/19/2017, 6:38pm PDT At my office we wrote an enterprise video portal using Angular for frontend stuff. Our latest web thing came out this week and is in React. (All with Azure backend, we're an MS shop at heart.) The pitch for Angular is that it's client-side, it's easy to write tests for, and front end people find it easier to style. As far as "why not ASP.NET MVC," not being married to the MS stack is inherently valuable to some people, too. If you're using Angular for frontend you might be part of the Node/NPM ecosystem* which is a bit more magical and fun and less work than the .Net/Nuget ecosystem. Writing web apps in the MS stack feels like driving a tank compared to JavaScript's rocket cars. All the web devs I know fall into two camps: people who prefer React and people who think they would probably prefer React if they took the time to learn it but are still using Angular. I do not know anyone that looked into either of those and decided that ASP.NET MVC was preferable. (*There's also the possibility of porting JS applications to the desktop - cross-platform! - using Electron; that's not a thing with ASP.NET MVC apps. That's how both the Slack client and VS Code work.)

Angular: Why? by Rafiki 10/18/2017, 10:59am PDT     It just seems like it's moving towards desktop application style MVC by Entropy Stew 10/18/2017, 5:49pm PDT         Re: It just seems like it's moving towards desktop application style MVC by Rafiki 10/19/2017, 1:09pm PDT             It is being used for traditional sites. by Fullofkittens 10/19/2017, 6:38pm PDT                 Yes. React is FRP-inspired and FRP is nigh panacea by Entropy Stew 10/19/2017, 10:26pm PDT                 See, React looks like something I can get behind by Rafiki 10/20/2017, 11:13am PDT                     I think the answer here is that we all more or less agree and are right-thinking NT by Entropy Stew 10/20/2017, 12:09pm PDT             It's probably better for traditional sites than the other js frameworks by Entropy Stew 10/19/2017, 10:19pm PDT     Wait until you see how many mb the browser downloads for Angular... NT by Oom Shnibble 10/19/2017, 4:55am PDT