React is a very nice UI view rendering lib, but that's pretty much all it does. Which isn't a bad thing at all, just something to bare in mind coming from Angul

React is a very nice UI view rendering lib, but that's pretty much all it does. Which isn't a bad thing at all, just something to bare in mind coming from Angular. jsx is incredibly straightforward to read/write, and the actual time it takes to build anything is trivial, but if you drop a lot of es6 on it babel is going to output some moderately horrifying code when you dig into it. Get your head around the component lifecycle stuff early and save yourself some O(n) heartache down the line.