Wasn’t the Angular to Angular 2 switch driven by React? I distinctly remember when React came out, pretty much every framework out there had to pivot to incorp

Wasn’t the Angular to Angular 2 switch driven by React? I distinctly remember when React came out, pretty much every framework out there had to pivot to incorporate at least one of the 2 major ideas React brought with it (or at least, these were the most immediately beneficial features at a time when IE was still officially supported). The virtual DOM and one way data binding. One way data binding didn’t even exist as an option in any other web framework and it was such a breath of fresh air. In fact, competing frameworks used to strongly advertise the fact that they had 2 way binding and how awesome it was. And 2 way binding looked great in your toy TodoMVC app, but absolutely failed when developing applications for real world use. And the virtual DOM was so much faster when it first came out.