I came from an MVC background, where we created hybrids putting Angular or Knockout in the views. But lately I've been doing light-weight Angular solutions now

I came from an MVC background, where we created hybrids putting Angular or Knockout in the views. But lately I've been doing light-weight Angular solutions now with Webpack talking to Web API. Anyways, Angular 2 is more of a fair comparison to React, since your building components in both of them. The biggest difference between them seems to be that Angular puts js into the html, and React puts html into the js. So it really just depends on which development experience you'd prefer. The Angular team has a lot of sibling projects like Angular Material that I like using, but I'd like to experience more with React.