Observables are WAY easier than they seem 

Ah yes this is a good point I'll add this, but for v18 the only entirely new lesson is this one which covers signal APIs that were not present previously: angularstart.com/modules/basic-angular-concepts/7 The rest of the updates have mostly been updating all the code to make use of the new signal based APIs where they were previously using the old APIs (e.g. @Input, @ViewChild etc)

100% agree. I shared the same opinion back when signals were introduced. They don't solve anything that rxjs doesn't already solve (except maybe for "glitches" but those can be worked around in rxjs) but now you have a fractured ecosystem where every Angular app becomes a mess of mutation with zonejs + signals + rxjs. Unfortunately the Angular team will keep adding changes to the point where it will become a mix of React/Vue/Svelte instead of having its own identity.

I got into some thoughts around this in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iA6iyoantuo.html but my general opinion is that signals are a better way to represent state, and observables are a better way to handle events, and the flow I've landed on in my apps of starting with observables which flow through to signals to be consumed by the components I quite like/am happy with. But if you do go the pure RxJS approach I don't think there's anything wrong with that (generally speaking, a pure RxJS approach is going to be fine, a pure signals approach might be questionable)

@@JoshuaMorony thanks man

@@valcron-1000 Signals may become an integral part of Javascript, FYI, so there's not running away from it. It looks like they're here to stay.

I don't know your situation, nor do I really know the current job market first hand as I have not had to deal with it any time recently, but my guess is that it sounds like you already would "qualify" for an entry level role (maybe beyond that), and maybe the issue lies somewhere other than needing to know more stuff to land a role (likely a big part of the problem is that from what I have heard the market for entry level positions is very competitive/difficult at the moment). This isn't particularly useful advice, because I don't think I have good advice to give on how to land a job in today's market, but I did want to make it clear that I don't think going through my course is necessarily going to help you land a job. That said, at least from my perspective, someone who has a strong grasp of all the topics covered in the course would be among the best Angular developers (but also, that would come through repeated application of these concepts over a period of time to develop that "strong grasp"). But ultimately, even if you have all these skills, it still might be difficult to land a job without prior positions/network.

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