Angular is a development platform built on TypeScript. (Remember TypeScript is a based on JavaScript, so it’s easy to move from one to another as a developer.) It includes a component-based framework for building scalable web applications and a collection of well-integrated libraries that cover a wide variety of features, including routing, forms management, client-server communication, and more.
It is designed to make updating as easy as possible so you can take advantage of the latest developments with a minimum of effort. When you build applications with Angular, you’re taking advantage of a platform that can scale from single-developer projects to enterprise-level applications. The Angular ecosystem consists of a diverse group of over 1.7 million developers, library authors, and content creators.
Compared to React, which is actually a UI Library, Angular is a full-fledged front end framework, providing more tools and resources that allow you to build complex web applications. It is known for its powerful features, such as two-way data binding and dependency injection.
There are actually lots of JavaScript libraries and frameworks. So many people joke about how a new framework is created every day.
When picking a framework, or a library, to use, you want to pick something that will help you, is well supported, and if possible, is used by larger organizations who don’t want to see it go away, and will therefore continue to support and maintain it. Angular is used by Google, Microsoft, IBM, and many other companies.
Another popular framework, Vue, is known for building small to medium size applications (which is most of them) and allowing really fast development times.
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