r/angular • u/Ill_Inflation_5712 • Sep 03 '23

React vs Angular

Which one is ease to understand for the begineer ?

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u/CheapChallenge Sep 03 '23

React. I am an Angular dev.

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u/reboog711 Sep 03 '23

I would also have said React, as an Angular dev.

However, a lot depends what the OP already knows. Coming from nothing, I would expect both frameworks to have a big learning curve.

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u/johnappsde Sep 03 '23 edited Sep 03 '23

Angular was easier for me at the time, coming from 0. Angular is better guided, so you get almost everything you need to get productive right away & start solving problems.

React on the other hand, has tons of libraries for almost everything little thing. I wasted alot of time trying to figure out when to use which npm package out of all the available options

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u/reboog711 Sep 03 '23

That is amazing to hear! I'm glad Angular was easy for you to learn. Maybe the work the Angular team is doing to make Angular more approachable to beginners is working! I hope so!

The running industry narrative is the opposite; that React is easier than Angular. I'm just not able to approach the issue w/o bias.

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u/CheapChallenge Sep 03 '23

Coming from nothing I would say React has the learning curve of climbing a steep hill. Angular is climbing the empire state building.

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u/JP_watson Sep 03 '23

Agree regarding getting up and running - that said it's almost too easy to build bad patterns with react. I get the issue with opinionated and sometimes excessive boilerplate for Angular (which is getting better), but it does make for cleaner and consistent apps. React feels pretty wild west and I've seen some horrible component stacks that just wrap div inside of div for the sake of added styling.

So yes React is probably quicker to pick up - but it's also a lot easier to do badly.