FWIW, I recently left a project with quite a lot of Angular (2+) code (not massive project but good chunk of code for three developers), and mostly it was a real pleasure as most of the stuff was strictly typed.
One extra reason that smoothed the experience was that our Spring Java/Kotlin endpoints have corresponding client typescript API (and data structures) generated automatically by custom tool http://github.com/evidentSolutions/apina
i.e. Having defined endpoint controller with methods, you have automatically Angular service that has the same methods with the similar types. (One may need to define some custom datatype de/serialization but not much)
If I had to say two things that I would like to get improved:
1) better typing related to Reactive Forms and Angular Material (e.g. IIRC Material dynamic table definitions were declared in a way that it lost IDE navigation and static analysis)
2) Faster compiling times, but we got this to be good enough for hot-reloading which matters most.
RxJS Observables with Push ChangeDetection was heavily used.
Personally just thanks for your contribution to make web developing more enjoyable!
If I had to say two things that I would like to get improved: 1) better typing related to Reactive Forms and Angular Material (e.g. IIRC Material dynamic table definitions were declared in a way that it lost IDE navigation and static analysis) 2) Faster compiling times, but we got this to be good enough for hot-reloading which matters most.
RxJS Observables with Push ChangeDetection was heavily used.
Personally just thanks for your contribution to make web developing more enjoyable!