When you want to create a single page application the question arrives in your mind: What I will use? AngularJS or ReactJS? I've been using AngularJS and ReactJS for a while now. Both frameworks are super fast, advanced, widely adopted JavaScript (JS) technologies that we use to create interactive single-page applications (SPAs).
Angular, the Model–View–Controller framework has become extremely popular among web developers. React is even more widely used by JavaScript programmers, React is actually a library, not a framework. React only has a View, but lacks Model and Controller components. So how did React became so popular and how can we reasonably compare a framework (AngularJS) with a library (React)?
We can differentiate Angular and React using following aspects:
• Data Binding
• Dependency Resolution
• Templating & Directives
• Componentization
• Performance
• Language
• Concept
Data Biding
AngularJS
Two-way data binding.
ReactJS
One-way data binding.
Dependencies
AngularJS
Manages dependencies automatically.
ReactJS
Requires additional tools to manage dependencies.
Templating & Directives
AngularJS
We make our own directives in Angular to insert data into templates.
ReactJS
React doesn’t offer division into templates and directives or template logic.
Componentization
AngularJS
Based on the three layers — Model, View, and Controller.
ReactJS
Only has a View, but lacks Model and Controller components.
Performance
AngularJS
The performance will decrease a lot if your application has too many watchers.
ReactJS
React makes it simpler to control application performance but this doesn't mean we can't create a fast application in Angular.
Language
AngularJS
JavaScript + HTML
ReactJS
JavaScript + JSX
Concept
AngularJS
Brings JavaScript into HTML Works with the real DOM Client-side rendering.
ReactJS
Brings HTML into JavaScript Works with the virtual DOM Server-side rendering.
Top comments (6)
Angular uses TypeScript, not JavaScript or was it an article about deprecated AngularJS 1? Also, did you take the "watcher" concept from Angular 1 as well?
Yes, actually this comparison focused on Angular1(AngularJS) and ReactJS
Why? It has only limited support to fix major issues and nobody uses it anymore.
You are right Tomas, but it is not about anyone is using or not and support for fixing issues, it's just simple comparison. Everybody has their choice whether they want to use or not.
AngularJS is also an old framework, we should be talking more about Angular 2+ vs React
The bias is deafening.