New company primarily uses Angular for front end, had me groaning…

Im primarily back end with a lot of .NET experience. All of the other typical full stack stuff of course but not really a specialist in any particular JS/TS framework.

As part of my job hunt I wanted to harden my front end skills and worked on some sample apps trying out React and Svelte since they're hot items. Kind of difficult for me to understand since modern front end paradigms have evolved considerably and no longer really look like OOP. Looked at vue as well for good measure. I did like svelte for its brevity and simplicity at least. But I mostly retreated back to ASP.NET/.NET, got a good gig at a big dusty .NET oriented company too.

After getting familiar with the code base I was dismayed to see it was mostly angular driven on the front end. I was going to have to learn a non trendy framework of old, and a verbose one at that? It's pretty ugly to witness at first.

Well after a few weeks and some work on building out new components it struck me that this was all pretty similar to C# and OOP. All very structured in the same way, allowing me to intuitively dance around and build quickly for being brand new.

Did some more research and apparently this is a known cliche? Not mad about it at all, I think I found my favorite FE framework! Pretty performant too according to the latest benchmarks so I'm going to try to build something for myself as well to get better at it and master my role.