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John Peters

But the negative impact so far is non existant. Angular 10 is working much better than all prior releases.

React is simply gaining more popularity every day.

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Chandler Baskins

Since writing that there was a Podcast episode on the Angular Show that made me feel better. Besides I continued on my learning journey and I couldn't be more happier.

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John Peters

I feel the same way, Angular appears to have overcome a lot of compiler and web-pack interface issues with Angular 10. I just don't have any of the same issues I had before. I'm pretty sure the real culprit was NPM package system anyway which continues to be a terrible module delivery system.

Many years ago the desktop environment went through a similar module loading issue known as dll hell. But both Java and C# solved that problem each having loaders that supported name spacing. What NPM can't do that is simply dumb. There's something to be said about a closed system framework like .NET or Java, they don't have these huge and very deep hierarchies like the node_modules folder shows us every day. In addition security threats were minimal back in those days.