you will want to research and form your own opinion as there are very subtle nuances that have enormous consequences in maintaining large codebases, but here's

you will want to research and form your own opinion as there are very subtle nuances that have enormous consequences in maintaining large codebases, but here's a starting point: http://www.quora.com/Pete-Hunt/Posts/Facebooks-React-vs-AngularJS-A-Closer-Look http://www.quora.com/Pete-Hunt/Posts/Facebooks-React-vs-Angu... The main issue is that to do anything complicated in angular you need to start writing tricky[1] "link" functions; the React approach completely sidesteps this complexity. There are some tradeoffs you have to accept, like JSX, but they are easily worth it. [1] tricky is of course relative; angular is easier to code than something like backbone+jquery or backbone+knockout.