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Re:Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating by peferron on Monday September 19, 2016 @05:23PM (#12534862)
Is the comparison fair? I haven't tried Angular 2, but it seems much more full-featured than React. For example, I guess that Angular 2 includes a router, while React doesn't, and just a few days ago there was a vitriolic thread just here on HN about the state of react-router.

If you look at react-redux-starter-kit [1], I would absolutely not say that it's simple. This file [2] is only 12 lines of code but can you call it simple? I don't think so.

[1] https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit

[2] https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit/blob/mas...

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Re:Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating by barryhoodlum on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:17PM (#12535233)
It's not a fair comparison. React is just a view layer. It's not trying to offer everything that you'd need to write a web application.

React has become synonymous in some people's minds with "React + a bunch of other stuff", but this wasn't intentional. It's an unfortunate side effect of its popularity.

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