Angular 5.0.0
Congrats to the new release! I&#x27;ve got a lot of respect for putting so much energy into open source projects.<p>Predictably, the discussion evolves around Angular vs react&#x2F;vue&#x2F;ember or whatever (personally, I like react).<p>My current customer project introduced me to a new generation of web front-end developers specializing in a particular framework (react&#x2F;redux in our case) but know very little about CSS and the myriad of plumbing and polyfilling going on in browsers. In the end, they delivered an app that would only run on Chrome. Sadly, the whole thing makes me realize just how utterly inadequate the web platform after all these years still is for the kind of MVw apps folks want to use it for.<p>I think there&#x27;s a place for a new &quot;opinionated&quot; web framework once again which more closely matches the needs of business apps, and which has an option to stand-alone app deployment outside web browsers. Mind you, this isn&#x27;t a sentimental reflection on Java applets and their failure or some such, but based on years of actual project experience, including in front-end developer roles.<p>For example, the other day I learned that in 2017 there&#x27;s no way to query the current zoom level of a web app (until very recently with the brand new Viewport API; but it&#x27;s not supported using media queries; I mean, seriously?). Furthermore, I&#x27;m using a very simple SVG background image for a text area element, and the latest Chrome release introduced laughable aliasing bugs, which I could only workaround by using `opacity: 0.99`. There are still just so many tricks and hacks necessary for even the most basic of UI tasks that a realistic web app project feels like jumping from one ridiculous issue to another, frantically searching through StackOverflow, CSS-tricks, etc.<p>With the somewhat naive reception of react, Angular, and co (which don&#x27;t actually do anything GUI-related, nor help with browser compatibility problems), I&#x27;m wondering whether I&#x27;m the only one feeling like putting square pegs into round holes using the web for anything other than content-driven sites.