Re:Angular 2 Release Candidate
by pluma on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:53AM
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I like that summary but I think it is dishonest. Angular doesn't use HTML, it uses strings with templates that use a superset of HTML with barely well-formed special attribute names.
And React doesn't use HTML either. It uses function calls that can be made to look kinda like XML by using a transpiler.
Neither puts HTML in JS or JS in HTML because neither actually uses HTML. Both build a virtual DOM: React does it explicitly with nested function calls, Angular does it implicitly using flat pseudo-HTML templates as strings.
React is really just a DSL for components that looks kinda like XML but if you consider React Native it is apparent that being able to render those components to HTML (on the server) or to the DOM is just an implementation detail of the renderer (i.e. ReactDOM, React Native, React Windows, WebGL, etc).
And React doesn't use HTML either. It uses function calls that can be made to look kinda like XML by using a transpiler.
Neither puts HTML in JS or JS in HTML because neither actually uses HTML. Both build a virtual DOM: React does it explicitly with nested function calls, Angular does it implicitly using flat pseudo-HTML templates as strings.
React is really just a DSL for components that looks kinda like XML but if you consider React Native it is apparent that being able to render those components to HTML (on the server) or to the DOM is just an implementation detail of the renderer (i.e. ReactDOM, React Native, React Windows, WebGL, etc).