Brief Overview |
Full-fledged open-sourced JS Framework |
JS
Library for UI development |
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managed by Google and the Angular developer community |
Managed By
Facebook and open-source community of developers |
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Launched in Sep 2016 |
Launched in May 2013 |
Universality |
Both Web and Mobile |
Both Web and
Mobile |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Long and difficult |
Fast and Simple with JS technical
background |
Community |
Large |
Large |
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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. |
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Angular is used by such companies as McDonald’s, AT&T, HBO, Apple,
Forbes, Adobe, Nike, and Microsoft as well. |
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Performance |
Competitive |
Competitive |
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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 |
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Component-based Model, Controller, and view |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |