What's with Angular? Why are there so many Job Openings for Angular in India? It's like every recruiter is asking Angular. And the pay is much more than the backend Dev positions. Just because its frontend. I feel voilated for being a backend dev.

I know the feeling but I understand why businesses are offering more for front-end than backend. People pay for what they see than what they don't see. So unless businesses start seeing how important backup and system management is, back-end developers are screwed.

Most of us that work with Angular are hardcore backend devs that wanted to use a front end tool with good backup(it is after all made by google) and good tooling. Why people used Angular prior to Angular 2 beats me, it was complex and not as sexy as React. What Angular gas going for it now is a strict MVC convention, good separation of logic. For people coming from Java or C#, the current lang standard fits well with the way they think(India has a heavy talent pool of Java and C# devs) and Typescript makes sense to them(us albeit i am not Indian nor do I live in India)

The framework is heavy, somewhat hard to learn, but it requires backend level discipline and it has toons of good libs. Personally, I dig it although I mucb prefer Vue or React in some other cases.

Angular is so nice though. The cli, Typescript and the component structure makes it so easy and fun to use.