Angular or React 2018 - Behind the Scenes Differences | tecHindustan

Every programmer should evolve with evolving technology trends. If you will be like that developer who stuck at one technology or the developer who switch technologies two frequently then you will be facing more harm than good. 

Today we will be talking about the two most ground-breaking JavaScript frameworks, which shares the same concept of building powerful and flexible web apps, Angular and React. 

To choose between the most powerful JavaScript frameworks you need to understand "what exactly are you looking for?" for the development of your application. Before that let me tell you Angular and React both are going to give you equal results. 

To understand which one you should choose, you need to know the difference between Angular and React. It will make you understand that which one is more beneficiary for you.

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Angular

One Framework for Mobile & Web.

Angular is listed under top JavaScript frameworks 2018, Angular trends give the developer an ability to reuse their code and abilities for developing applications for multiple deployment targets (i.e. from the web, mobile web, native mobile, and native desktop).

The framework helps in achieving the maximum efficiency possible on any of the web platform available today.

Angular allows you to build simpler and quick application with the help of declarative templates. You can also extend the template language with your own components.
It is a complete framework that is available for both web and mobile. The framework is built and is maintained by Google’s team along with multiple developer’s communities. The framework is also licensed under the MIT license.

Let me tell you Key Characteristics of Angular to make you understand more about Angular vs React 2018

• TypeScript help in identifying value type error at a quite early stage. They also help in understanding what data structure works better.
• Angular modifies the DOM directly, instead of adding inner HTML code, which is faster.
• Data binding occurs not on each control or value change (no change listeners) but at particular points of the JS code execution. This drastically improves the performance as a single combined Model/View update is better than hundreds of cascading data change events.
• Features such as dependency injection, routing, animations, view orchestration, etc make it a complete framework capable of creating large-scale web applications

It is difficult to know whether to choose Angular or not only with Pros so here are the Cons of Angular

• To put it in the most simple term, Angular is big and complicated. With so many ways to do the same thing, it is hard to differentiate between a good and a better way of performing a particular task.
• Mastering Angular above the basic level requires considerable efforts. Different coding styles and habits of the developers might complicate the integration of different components into a full solution.
• The angular application has a complex life-cycle. The best way to master it is to read the code
• Scaling of Angular implementations is poor. You will need to refactor your implementations and create new versions with different approaches.

React

This is actually a view library which is a low-level javascript that is being maintained and developed by Facebook for building modern interfaces under MIT license. The framework is being used for a well-organized development process and building quick yet powerful apps. Today there are a number of companies that are working on React like Twitter, Uber, Pinterest or Airbnb, apart from Facebook’s popular products.

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Now it’s time for Pros and Cons of React

• React is very fast and extremely efficient. The concept of Virtual DOM in React gives it a huge performance advantage over its rivals.
• You can write HTML directly into Javascript, utilizing JSX syntax. This makes it easier to write dynamic HTML code, where passing variables and data around is secure.
• Reusability of components makes the code robust and easy to maintain.

How can we forget about its cons in Angular vs React 2018, So, now the cons:

• React is now at v16.*. It has been changing since it has been released, of-course for better, but what does this mean for the developers. It means that they need to relearn new syntaxes, features constantly while dealing with deprecations, discontinued libraries, etc.
• JSX is believed to have a steep learning curve which poses as a disadvantage for developers and designers who are proficient with JS
• React is a view library as mentioned above, it is not a fully capable framework like Angular. So to cap this incompetency, the developers have to use a list of libraries to handle different modules of the application.

Now if we talk about Angular 5 vs React

Here are the Pros and cons of Angular 5

Angular is superheroic JavaScript MVVM framework, founded in 2009, which is awesome for building highly interactive web applications.

Benefits of Angular 5:

• New features like enhanced RXJS, faster compilation (in under 3 seconds), new HttpClient launch.
• Detailed documentation that allows getting all necessary information for the individual developer without asking his colleagues. However, this requires more time for education.
• Two-way data binding that enables singular behavior for the app which minimized risks of possible errors.
• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) that allows developers to work separately on the same app section using the same set of data.
• Dependency injection of the features related to the components with modules and modularity in general.

Drawbacks of Angular 5:

• The complex syntax that comes from the first version of Angular. Nevertheless, Angular 5 uses TypeScript 2.4 which is the least difficult to learn in comparison.
• Migration issues which can appear while moving from the older version to the latest ones.

Companies that use Angular 5: Upwork, Freelancer, Udemy, YouTube, Paypal, Nike, Google, Telegram, Weather, iStockphoto, AWS, Crunchbase.

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