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Discussion on: Which is easier to learn React or Angular?

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Nicolás Giacconi

Hi Deni!

As @Zee said, it's not an easy answer. As far I can tell in my experience, and coming from the typical MVC Web architecture, learning Angular (2+) was way too easy than React. I must confess I'm didn't gave React too much oportunities, but when it comes to learning, Angular was more clear. The architecture, the (conceptual) integration with Express/NodeJS and the modularization of all its components, fitted better with me. I'm not the only one with this thinking, specially coming from PHP/Java environments and MVC patterns.

But, in the other hand, I think I must give React another chance. The Front-End community has React as their number one Front-End framework, and the stats of use clearly shows React as the most used Front-End framework.

In my opinion, and specially if you come from an MVC PHP/Java environment, try Angular and make some side (very little) projects to get into the framework. Then you can learn React and compare. I think Angular is easier to learn, otherwise, if you gave both of them a try, you'll know better.