Differences in Angular and React

Differences Highlighted.

React

• React is a library so we will have to explicitly inject more libraries for our use case.
• React uses JSX ( JavaScript + XML )
• One directional data binding
• Doesn’t use Dependency Injection. React has a global state for all components.
• React uses Virtual DOM for performance improvement
• Follows just the V part of MVC, as HTML and JS are in a single file.
• React is a library so you can integrate it with any project even if it is written it Angular
• Backward compatibility and migrating to higher versions is easier (People may argue on this points so have a clear answer on ‘Why?’)
• Developed by Facebook
• Easier to learn for new developers. Although JSX could be something new to digest
• Additional effort to start development, as we need to take care of including libraries for our use cases.
• Testing may turn out to be quite challenging with React as it lacks the ready-made solutions that are available in Angular.
• React with a global state management library like redux makes code more clear, manageable and efficient. However for developers Redux can be daunting.

Angular

• Angular is a complete framework i.e. you would not need third party libraries .
• Uses TypeScript
• 2-way data binding
• Uses Dependency Injection
• Uses Incremental DOM not virtual DOM
• Follows MVC architecture
• Backward Compatibility and migrating to higher versions is a real painful task.
• Developed by Google
• Angular can be difficult to start with as a developer who is learning ; because frameworks are difficult to understand at the beginning.
• Getting started with development is easier because everything(eg all libraries) is available in a framework.
• Testing is much easier once we have hold on the framework

Conclusion

A very short article highlighting the difference between two giants in frontend development. Check this for more information on React.
Happy learning! Cheers.