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  • Limited SEO Capabilities 

    Angular is just great for building powerful single-page web applications. However, as with all single-page web applications, there is a disadvantage when it comes to search engine optimization.  
     
    Usually single-page applications are rendered on the client side and therefore web crawlers of search engines like Google and Bing are not able to see the complete structure and content of the individual pages of the websites. With this limitation in place,it is not possible to list your website correctly in search engine results.  

    However, there are techniques and packages to make this work, but it is an extra effort in terms of development. Angular universal is a way to render the Angular application of the server itself. The technology enables server-side rendering for Angular applications. Angular Universal generates static application pages on the server through a process called server-side rendering. 

    While Angular universal takes care of most aspects, it still requires a lot of setup. If you prefer to do it all manually, there are documents available to help you do that but there are gotchas that you need to watch out for. 

  • Steeper learning curve 

    While Angular is great, it may not be the case for a complete beginner. Even if you have experience with HTML, CSS and JS, you may feel a little bit uncomfortable with the steep learning curve that it has. It brings its own notions and philosophy to the table that you need to work around.  

    Angular is an opinionated framework which means that it has its own rules that developers need to learn and follow. This can be a good and a bad thing, but the learning curve can be uncomfortable for total beginners. I would recommend that you stay patient and start slow. Slow and steady! 

  • Steep learning curve

    There exists an opinion that Angular is a rather challenging front-end development framework to master. Although many Angular features, such as component-based development, simplify software engineers’ work, boilerplate code and injected dependencies ensure a rather steep learning curve for Angular. In addition, Angular is based on TypeSrcipt instead of JavaScript, which is the most popular language in terms of front-end development. This means that inexperienced developers may need some extra time to understand Angular.

    To mitigate this issue, aim to hire experienced Angular developers. Fortunately, the market has a lot to offer in this regard. Besides, community support and additional tools will significantly simplify Angular onboarding for motivated developers.

  • SEO limitations

    Angular is known as an excellent solution for building excellent single-page web applications. Such apps are rendered on the client’s side, which prevents web crawlers or search engines, such as Google or Bing, from seeing the full structures and content of relevant web pages. This disrupts the website’s listing in search engine results. As a result, Angular is not a very popular solution among companies that develop websites to promote them with traditional SEO practices.

    However, there are certain techniques and packages that allow developers to improve SEO for Angular apps. For example, they can use the Angular universal approach to ensure server-side rendering of Angular applications. This solution eliminates the main factor behind Angular’s SEO limitations.

  • A lot of boilerplate code

    Some developers consider Angular to be a rather verbose framework. All the components are independent and can be managed separately, but their management is not an easy task. Up to five files may be required for a single component in Angular. A developer should inject dependencies and declare the component lifecycle interfaces. With all these things needed, Angular component code may sometimes be too long and complex.

    Fortunately, each new Angular release is aimed at solving this problem. While Angular code is still, usually, far from simple, new releases introduce methods for making it more concise and understandable. In addition, this Angular’s feature may significantly pay off in the long run, as this framework allows you to create a directive that will add behaviors to the component, reducing the amount of work and code maintenance tasks in the future. In addition, Angular CLI provides automation, enabling you to cut down your workload on Angular boilerplate code by 70%.

  • Easy testing

    Angular can be used to perform unit testing and end-to-end testing of the application. The framework is suitable for performing both simple testing for unit testing and end-to-end testing. The number of developers/users does not matter. It is possible to test any part of your application.

  • Productivity and code consistency

    The entire framework is based on components and services, which can be thought of as building blocks. The application can be developed faster and more consistently if you write the components according to the guidelines and code structures or create a class of service.

  • Use of TypeScript’s data types

    By using Angular, users can effortlessly call data from TypeScript code on the web page and respond to appropriate user input without having to manually write any code. This enables the integration of third-party libraries without implementing another intermediate layer (glue code).

  • Custom and reusable components

    Angular allows developers to create their own components. These components can be reused, combined and nested, providing a construction kit for building the application.

  • Angular Material Design

    Material Design is one of Angular’s most notable libraries for building highly customizable and diverse UIs. It offers diverse functionality for building design elements in Android, iOS, and Flutter apps, as well as web platforms. Notably, Material Design combines a strong focus on aesthetics and style with user experience considerations. One of its core purposes is to make the user experience as appealing as possible. Angular Material offers a variety of prebuilt components, such as control buttons, navigation elements, layouts, indicators, tabs, pop-ups, and data tables.

    What does it mean from the business perspective?
    Angular allows companies to build excellent and up-to-date UI/UX designs in short terms and without overspending. Experienced designers can build the most ingenious and creative designs with pre-built elements. So, your app provides an excellent user experience without costing you a fortune.