Angular was created and maintained by the Angular team at Google. Although excellent frameworks such as Vue.js and Svelte are maintained only by their communities, having such a big tech company supporting the framework brings security to the choice of technology, especially for large companies.
In addition, Angular is used in more than 300 internal applications and Google products, which means stability and quality because, before each new version of the framework is released, it is validated in all these applications.
The Angular team has strived since version 13 to increase transparency within the community by releasing a roadmap (https://angular.io/guide/roadmap) detailing all the improvements in progress and what to expect for the future of the framework, giving you peace of mind that it will be supported for years to come.
Community
Technology is only as alive as the community that supports it, and Angular has a huge one. Meetups, podcasts, events, articles, and videos – the Angular community has many resources to help developers.
The people who make up this community also have the important contribution of giving feedback, creating and correcting issues in Angular. As it is an open source project, everyone is invited to evaluate and contribute to the code.
The Angular team also asks the community for help with major framework decisions through Requests for Comment (RFCs).
In addition, the community creates many libraries that expand the possibilities of the framework, such as NgRx (https://ngrx.io/) for advanced state management and Transloco (https://ngneat.github.io/transloco/) to support internationalization, among others.
Tooling
One of the differentiating factors of Angular compared to its competitors is the focus from the beginning on tooling and developer experience. The Angular CLI tool is a powerful productivity tool that we will explore in this chapter, which is used far beyond the simple creation and setup of a project.
From a testing point of view, Angular is already equipped and configured with Karma as a test runner and Jasmine as a configuration tool. Angular’s tooling already configures the project build using webpack and already has a dev server.
The tool is also extensible, allowing the community to create routines for configuring and updating their libraries.
With these arguments, you will be able to base your choice of Angular on your project; let’s see now which technologies make up the framework’s ecosystem.
What technologies are present in the ecosystem?
The Angular team, when creating the solution for the growing complexity of web application development, decided to unite the best tools and libraries in an opinionated package with the maximum number of configurations made by default.
We then have the following libraries that make up the core of Angular.