I don't see if it makes much sense to compare Angular with React. Heck, it's like a Pythonista would go comparing Django and Jinja. One's a framework, another'

I don't see if it makes much sense to compare Angular with React. Heck, it's like a Pythonista would go comparing Django and Jinja. One's a framework, another's a template library. Same goes for Angular and React - Angular's a framework that tries to be do-it-all solution (UI rendering, validation, data model description, data persistence and communications with server, and more), React's an long-distant ancestor of templating libraries that essentially does only one thing - takes a data structure, a component definition and renders (and maintains) a DOM tree. Seems that many are calling non-React pieces that are frequently used with React (e.g. Redux, Flux, Immutable.js, Restful.js) to be "React" as well, while they don't seem have any ties to it. But, yea, loose coupling's great. And React is a very nice library.