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Angular vs React: Who Is The Unbeatable Champion

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Jane Brewer
Angular vs React: Who Is The Unbeatable Champion

In the world of programming, everywhere we look, we are surrounded by Javascript. The language rapidly climbed to the first rank on Github, and is constantly gaining momentum across different applications; not just limited to front-end application development.

Javascript is found in the frontend, the backend, building mobile applications and even for building AI applications.

Talking about Javascript, we know that there are numerous frameworks and libraries available today. And that can be the problem and the solution both. Multiple frameworks mean you get to decide on the one that best suits your needs. However, you can also fall into the choice paralysis trap.

These frameworks and libraries are intended to accelerate the development process by leveraging the power of the tools that have been forged with experience and expertise of other professional developers and their answers to common issues.

Let’s go ahead and pick two of the most popular Javascript frameworks, Angular and React.

If one wants to be a better programmer, they need not evaluate what is good or bad. Rather they need to think in terms of pros and cons. Using the right tools at the right time is what makes someone an expert in a particular field. Also, as a company when you want to hire AngularJs developers or React developers, it is imperative to look if they can differentiate between the two.

The Basics

From another perspective, you can perceive Angular as a big kitchen which gives you all those tools which are necessary to cook the perfect recipe, or in this case, the perfect app.

Think of React as an oven where you will surely need tools to bake your recipe, but it will allow you with the flexibility to pick and choose the tools that you like based on your requirement.

The History

Angular was developed by Google and first released in 2010. This makes it older than React. It is more of a TypeScript based JavaScript framework. There was a tectonic shift in 2016 when Angular 2 was released, also the “JS” was dropped from the original name – AngularJS. Angular 2+ since then is known as just Angular.

React

React was developed by Facebook and was first released in 2013. Undoubtedly, Facebook makes use of React extensively in its products including Instagram and WhatsApp.

Sizes and Load times

Angular: 500+ KB

React: 100 KB

There isn’t a significant difference between the sizes of the frameworks. But, they are definitely small compared to the average web page size which usually is 2+ MB.

The Components

Components are integral parts of all three frameworks, regardless of the framework we are discussing. In a component, it generally gets an input, and changes behavior based on it.

 

Angular: Components are referred to as directives in Angular. They are simply markers on DOM elements, which Angular can track and attach specific behavior too. As a matter of fact, Angular separates the UI part of components as attributes of HTML tags, and their behaviors in the form of JavaScript code. Making Angular different from React in this aspect.

React: Interestingly, React combines the UI and behavior of components. In React, the part of the code is responsible for creating a UI element and dictating its behavior.

Conclusion

Both Angular and React have their share of benefits and attributes specific to different tasks. They are backed by gigantic companies and have a huge fan base. This gives them a solid foundation and a strong future.

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