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Discussion on: April 9, 2020: What did you learn this week?

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Bastion Fennell

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I'm a React guy and got laid off last week. While job hunting, it seems like the whole Austin market wants Angular, so I put together my first Angular project since AngularJS. It was super fun!

It was also an experiment in livestreaming programming and some people from the Angular community showed up and we're super helpful and patient walking me through these concepts, mad respect for them.

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Alexander Kim

Did you like Angular more than React? :)

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Bastion Fennell

It's hard to say at this point honestly. They're veeeery different. I do miss the virtual dom specifically though, I feel like Angular is super rerender happy. I do like that Angular has everything I need in the core package though!

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Alexander Kim

How much time you spent on that app? "Bouldy Clicker" i mean. I just consider myself Angular, because Vue2 is awful with TypeScript.

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Bastion Fennell

I've probably spent about 10-12 hours on it at this point? It was a bit slow going, especially since I streamed it.

I haven't used Vue in a while, how was it awful with Typescript if you don't mind me asking? I know React has some kinks around defaultProps that are still being worked out, it's certainly not baked in as well as it is for Angular...

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Alexander Kim

With Vue2 you have to use class styled api, instead of Options API with TS, otherwise you'll face lots of pain. Even with classes it has many issues with Vuex and 3rd party libraries, it's just feels not so mature, if compare to React (not telling about Angular). Totally not worth to use Vue2 with TS, with Vue3 things might change, but that would take a few years i guess.

React has more matured ecosystem if compare to Vue.

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Nick Taylor

Cool that you're live coding as well and kudos to going head first into another frontend framerwork. I never did any Angular after 1.4, but am pretty proficient with TypeScript if you have any questions.

You should post a Tweet about being laid off and looking for work. I'm happy to retweet and I'm sure others would too.

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Bastion Fennell

Thank you!

I'm pretty fortunate and already in the end/offer stages with a few companies already. One of which actually because of the Angular ramp up I did, so it worked out :P