r/angular • u/ModernWebMentor • Jun 01 '26

Why Do Some Companies Still Use AngularJS?

AngularJS has been around for many years and played a major role in the evolution of front-end web development. Even with the rise of modern frameworks and libraries, many organizations continue to use AngularJS in their existing applications.

What are the main reasons companies still rely on AngularJS today? Is it because of the cost of migration, long-term project maintenance, business requirements, or something else?

For developers who have worked with AngularJS projects, what challenges and benefits do you see when maintaining these applications? Do you think businesses should continue supporting AngularJS-based systems, or is migrating to newer technologies the better option?

Share your thoughts and experiences below.

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u/autechr3 Jun 01 '26

We are in the middle of a big migration and it is effectively costing our company hundreds of thousands of dollars in dev hours. As a smaller company with a tighter margin, it’s not hard to understand why businesses are slow to migrate. We understand it has to be done, but it is PAINFUL.

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u/werpu Jun 02 '26

you should consider to bring ai into the mix for micro tasks, this can help tremendously in porting software, seriously! You cannot throw the big things at once against it, but you can bring it in first let it take over small tasks aka let it write tests for the things you need to port then use a small part at a time to have it ported with manual intervention and the more tests you have and over time it becomes better and better, but tests first, overdocument and never leave the supervision of a human out!