Who else loves Angular and hates React?

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28 Oct 2020, 10:01 am

I code mainly with Angular and Node.js.

Recently was trying to learn React because it has more job opportunities, but I didn't like it at all; it's so chaotic compared to Angular and requires a manual set of tools to imports to get a complete ecosystem like Angular.

Who else is facing this misery?

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28 Oct 2020, 10:04 am

I'm facing the misery of learning React (my first language of its ilk) and I'm not liking it at all. I have a background in asp.net. Sorry I can't compare it to Angular...

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28 Oct 2020, 10:05 am

also, I find the fact that you have to import so many tools and 3rd party things a bit troubling as well.

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28 Oct 2020, 10:18 am

^^ I am still in early tutorials on React, the first difference I noticed that React uses Javascript natively, to use Typescript you should set it manually, while Angular uses Typescript and webpack out of the box.

I find the JSX concept very ugly, html syntax inside JavaScript? Seriously?

React is a UI library.

Angular is a full-fledged framework and very opinionated. I prefer opinionated frameworks because it forces you an organized project structure.

While React on the other hand feels like jQuery with all the html syntax in the code.

I haven't look into https://create-react-app.dev/ , it looks good.