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

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Hey Deni!

Unfortunately there's not really an easy answer for this, as both frameworks have different barriers to entry and skill curves.

That said, my experience working in Angular ~5 years ago was that the breadth of things you had to understand was very wide. Directives and Services and Models and more, Oh My! The nice thing about Angular was it pretty directly built on top of the libraries and frameworks that came before; so there wasn't too significant of a philosophical shift.

React, on the other hand, is not quite as deep, but it does require a more in-depth understanding of the component lifecycle and stateless/stateful behavior in order to design systems with it effectively. Further, it lacks the "batteries included" nature of Angular; so you wind up making more decisions about how to structure the application and/or solve problems.

That said, Wes Bos's React courses provide a really solid path towards proficiency in React that shows you how to find and insert the batteries and all(? or most!) of the example code is freely available on Github. Plus if you're a student (even of a bootcamp or self-learning) Wes offers a pretty fantastic discount.