More modern alternative about office-addin-taskpane-angular HOT 1 OPEN

@dsebastien and @millerds, I fully support this request. I have used both the generator-office (through yo office) and the office-plugins-nx-workspace-template. While the generator-office makes certain things very easy, it does not follow Angular best practices and still uses Angular 5 (released in 2017) in December 2021. The office-plugins-nx-workspace-template is much better in that respect, brings the goodness of Nrwl NX, but is not quite as easy to set up (noting that the generator-office is super-easy). It would be really nice to combine the best of both worlds.

I have significant experience in Office add-in development, using VBA and VSTO. I've also done web development, using Angular and React, for example. I then wanted to make the move to the office-js add-in model but also did not want to be stuck with very old versions of Angular (e.g., because I'm using recent versions in other projects). But that suddenly becomes very complex. In my case, I then did not make the move.

To make more developers adopt the office-js add-in model, it would make a lot of sense for Microsoft to provide a generator that produces modern applications (e.g., Angular 12 or even 13 right now) based on the relative best practices for such applications (that's the enhancement) while also making it as easy as possible (as before).

from office-addin-taskpane-angular.