My Angular journey started with React. I thought the transition would take a week or two; it was three weeks just to feel comfortable. And by the second month, I was still hitting walls.

This is not a tutorial. It's everything I wish someone had told me before I opened the Angular docs for the first time.

The Learning Curve Is Real, And It's Steep at the Start

Angular is an opinionated framework. It has a specific way of doing almost everything, routing, forms, HTTP calls, and state management, and it expects you to learn that way before you try to work around it.

Coming from React, where you have a lot of freedom in how you structure things, this felt suffocating at first. Why do I need a module for this? Why is this service injected this way? Why does the CLI generate five files when I want a component?

There are answers. But Angular doesn't explain them to you upfront.…