In fact the "write a component" part is the center of React but only one of the features of Angular. In my experience, the big advantage of Angular is that you rarely need anything else and so it’s totally possible and reasonable to write a full fledged application without any other dependency than Angular itself. In $prev_job, we had nothing else in package.json than angular, some internal libs and the internal design system (which were exposed as angular providers) and some wysiwyg editor like quill.
It’s far from the funniest framework, but for writing boring things in team setting, it’s actually pretty good.
In fact having worked on the oldest AngularJS framework, it’s very interesting how it made a full 180 from "magic everywhere" to a boring "enterprise" framework.
I would never make a side project in angular because it can be pretty boilerplatey but in a team of 3 or more devs in a multi months dev project that I’ll have to maintain for years, that’d be my choice.
Except if I can reasonably do it without an SPA beforehand but that’s a totally inaudible proposition in corporate world anyway.
