Why Angular for Enterprise Development

Chapter 5. Angular Has a Proven Track Record

Angular is built at scale and is meant to scale. When Google created the Angular framework, it focused on creating a solution for the scale at which Google executes. This means that Angular is well suited not just for Google, but also for enterprises that are also building applications that must be reliable, testable, performant, and scalable. In this chapter, we discuss a few organizations, including Google itself, that rely on Angular.

Google

It should not come as a surprise that Google uses Angular. As the author and primary maintainer of the framework, the Angular team at Google delivers on its promise to create a robust and opinionated framework that can be used throughout one of the largest technology companies on the planet. In fact, Angular echoes how Google works. Google engineering cannot support multiple patterns, practices, and languages; rather, engineering must be focused, intentional, and consistent throughout the organization. The movement of skilled engineers between projects, teams, and locations enables Google to retain employees and to avoid the high costs of retraining. Further, some projects involve more than 500 engineers located globally. The opinionated nature of the Angular framework enables such a broad range of talent to contribute to projects of this size.

Although Google builds the Angular framework and platform of services publicly, every commit to the master branch of the source repository flows into ...