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> The author thinks that React is amazing at everything, but detests JSX. Conversely, he hates Angular but loves Angular's directives. The hilarious part about

> The author thinks that React is amazing at everything, but detests JSX. Conversely, he hates Angular but loves Angular's directives. The hilarious part about this statement is that React is the equivalent of the Directive component in Angular...so if you like Angular Directives, there's basically no reason to use React. I'm seriously wondering why this post got so many upvotes.

karmajunkie 11y ago
I'm stuck on an older version of angular, but have directives become more composable in the last couple of versions? I had real problems composing them as element directives, which is the only way i'd be able to swallow the equivalence argument.
- jmkni 11y ago
  Yes they have, everything is gearing towards component-based architecture in the more recent versions of Angular, and 2.0 is going to be all about components. This is a good read - http://teropa.info/blog/2014/10/24/how-ive-improved-my-angular-apps-by-banning-ng-controller.html http://teropa.info/blog/2014/10/24/how-ive-improved-my-angul...
  - acconrad 11y ago
    Which is funny because Google is also sponsoring Web Components (via Polymer), so I wouldn't be surprised if Angular is one grand experiment to see if the world will adopt data-bound web components as the next step in the evolution of the web.
  - lucisferre 11y ago
    Sorry can you elaborate? How have they become more composable? I don't recall a point at least post 1.X where they were more or less useful for composition than they are now.
    - jmkni 11y ago
      Sure, there are a lot of subtle things which have been improved in later Angular versions. First of all, you don't need $scope anymore in controllers, you can still use it for functions like $watch, but you don't need to inject it in just to add properties to your controller, you can just use `this.foo = 'bar';` You also have the controllerAs syntax which I don't think is present in earlier Angular versions, which provides a shorthand for your controller, and bindToController for directives, which allows you to bind attribute values directly to the directives controller without extra syntax. If I remember other things I will update this comment.
netghost 11y ago
It has the words React AND Angular in the title. Instant upvote for folks I suppose.

karmajunkie 11y ago

I'm stuck on an older version of angular, but have directives become more composable in the last couple of versions? I had real problems composing them as element directives, which is the only way i'd be able to swallow the equivalence argument.

jmkni 11y ago
Yes they have, everything is gearing towards component-based architecture in the more recent versions of Angular, and 2.0 is going to be all about components. This is a good read - http://teropa.info/blog/2014/10/24/how-ive-improved-my-angular-apps-by-banning-ng-controller.html http://teropa.info/blog/2014/10/24/how-ive-improved-my-angul...
- acconrad 11y ago
  Which is funny because Google is also sponsoring Web Components (via Polymer), so I wouldn't be surprised if Angular is one grand experiment to see if the world will adopt data-bound web components as the next step in the evolution of the web.
- lucisferre 11y ago
  Sorry can you elaborate? How have they become more composable? I don't recall a point at least post 1.X where they were more or less useful for composition than they are now.
  - jmkni 11y ago
    Sure, there are a lot of subtle things which have been improved in later Angular versions. First of all, you don't need $scope anymore in controllers, you can still use it for functions like $watch, but you don't need to inject it in just to add properties to your controller, you can just use `this.foo = 'bar';` You also have the controllerAs syntax which I don't think is present in earlier Angular versions, which provides a shorthand for your controller, and bindToController for directives, which allows you to bind attribute values directly to the directives controller without extra syntax. If I remember other things I will update this comment.

netghost 11y ago

It has the words React AND Angular in the title. Instant upvote for folks I suppose.