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I've never understood any comparison between React and Angular. To me it seems like trying to compare a slick car to a fancy car garage. They try to solve quite

• jeremiep 11y ago
  I've used both and I could completely replace Angular with React and some scaffolding code. I used Angular on medium to large web apps in the past and while its easy to get started you always get tons of problems at scale. Staying at scale without problems requires so much discipline its not even worth mentioning. The two-way bindings are just the wrong way to go in order to keep things simple as you scale. It becomes nearly impossible to reason about the performance of your app or what is going to trigger if you change a model. This is way, way too complex to build an application. With React most of this complexity goes away. I'm also using React from ClojureScript through the Om library so these might be contributing to said simplicity!
• lojack 11y ago
  > They try to solve quite different problems, right? Sort of. The problem React is solving is a subset of the problem Angular is solving. It's a bit more like comparing an older model sports car to a modern engine.
  • astazangasta 11y ago
    A modern engine that also insists on doing your taxes.
• coldtea 11y ago
  No. When people say React they mean React and a helper Flux-like framework. So, both are garages in this sense.