Features Angular React
Brief Overview Full-fledged open-sourced JS Framework JS Library for UI development
managed by Google and the Angular developer community Managed By Facebook and open-source community of developers
Launched in Sep 2016 Launched in May 2013
Universality Both Web and Mobile Both Web and Mobile
For mobile development, it needs to be incorporated with Cordova. Moreover, for mobile development, there is an additional framework – React Native. In mobile development, however, a great share of work is done by Ionic. Furthermore, similarly to React, Angular has an additional mobile development framework. The counterpart of React Native is Native Script.
Single and multiple-page apps Single and multiple-page apps
Self-Sufficiency Angular is a full-fledged framework for software development React is a framework for UI development
Hence no additional libraries needed Extra libraries needed
Learning Curve Angular itself is a huge library. Angular is more complex to understand, there is a lot of unnecessary syntax, and component management is intricate. Some complicated features are embedded into the framework core, which means that the developer cannot avoid learning and using them. React is minimalistic. However, it takes quite some time to learn how to set up a project because there is no predefined project structure. You also need to learn the Redux library, which is used in more than half of React applications for state management.
Long and difficult Fast and Simple with JS technical background
Community Large Large
Google provides the long-term support of the framework and constantly improves it. However, the updates are so fast that the documentation often falls behind. React framework is one of the most popular JS frameworks worldwide, and the community supporting and developing it is huge.
Angular is used by such companies as McDonald’s, AT&T, HBO, Apple, Forbes, Adobe, Nike, and Microsoft as well.
Performance Competitive Competitive
Optimized with change detection Optimized with Virtual DOM (Document Object Model )
Language JS,TypeScript JS ES6+,JSX script
App Structure Fixed and Complex Flexible component-based view only
Component-based Model, Controller, and view
UI Components Built-in Material Design toolset External Material-UI library and Dependencies
Directives The greatest advantage of Angular rests in the fact that, unlike React, it supports dependency injection. Therefore, Angular allows having different lifecycles for different stores. React does not fully support dependency injection as it does not fully comply with the idea of functional programming and data immutability. Instead, it has a global state for all components.
Incomprehensible without knowledge of Angular Easily understood with knowledge of JavaScript
Dependency Injection Supported Not Supported
State Management Effective improved with NgRx or RxJS Effective Improved with Redux or MobX
Data Binding Bidirectional Unidirectional
Data is mutable Data is immutable
Change Rendering Real DOM, Change detection Virtual DOM
Tools Aptana,Sublime Text, Visual studio, Angular CLI, Angular Universal, Jasmine, protector, Karma Sublime Text, Visual Studio, Atom, Create React App(CLI), Next.ks framework, Enzyme,Jest,React-unit