Wow, didn't expect the varied responses to my article, but glad to see it's opened up some good criticism of Angular itself, and of course my own reasoning in the post. Always good to get balanced opinion, and the only reason I put something like this out in the public domain is to get that feedback - maybe there's something huge I'm missing and others with experience can help. I've been in this web programming game for 20 years now and if there's one thing I've learned, is you're never too old (or experienced) to learn something new.
For those bemoaning the fact that I was hating on junior devs - I wasn't - and I explain that in a separate article linked to from the post, so it may help clarify those points. I also give more concrete examples in that follow-up post because a lot of comments said I was being too vague in this post - which to a certain extent I agree with, but it was never my intention to write a book or a manual. If someone is genuinely interested in more depth to some of my reasoning, I'm happy to be contacted about it with specific questions and we can go more in depth. Doing that in the post would have lost more readers than it gained so for me it was a balance for an already long article.
The bottom line for me, is that it's been far easier to get junior devs going in frameworks like backbone, ampersand, durandal (aurelia now) and react than it has been with angular and I've seen less bad habits forming. For me those are facts in my day job - but your mileage may vary.
For those bemoaning the fact that I was hating on junior devs - I wasn't - and I explain that in a separate article linked to from the post, so it may help clarify those points. I also give more concrete examples in that follow-up post because a lot of comments said I was being too vague in this post - which to a certain extent I agree with, but it was never my intention to write a book or a manual. If someone is genuinely interested in more depth to some of my reasoning, I'm happy to be contacted about it with specific questions and we can go more in depth. Doing that in the post would have lost more readers than it gained so for me it was a balance for an already long article.
The bottom line for me, is that it's been far easier to get junior devs going in frameworks like backbone, ampersand, durandal (aurelia now) and react than it has been with angular and I've seen less bad habits forming. For me those are facts in my day job - but your mileage may vary.