Choosing the right environment for developing a new system, application, or website in JavaScript is one of the top priorities of a company. This can have direct consequences on the longevity of a project, its compliance with deadlines, the future maintainability of its code and the scalability of your future application.
The fight for the power of JavaScript: the numbers
The number of JavaScript tools is constantly increasing, making it difficult to choose the right technology. At the same time, passionate debates pitted AngularJS against ReactJS.
Both are very powerful, sophisticated and widely used around the world. According to a recent comparison of JS development environments, React is commonly used by 53% of respondents, while 32% plan to learn how it works. Angular is implemented by 30% of respondents, and 10% intend to try it.
The latest version, Angular 2, is already used by 13% of respondents, and 43% want to get acquainted with it. In the meantime, HotFrameworks’ ranking places AngularJS in second place among the world’s most popular development environments behind ASP.NET.
An international craze: Opposing ReactJS to AngularJS is to oppose a back cover to a book React Vs Angular: the library against the development environment
Angular is one of the most popular JavaScript development environments, and like other similar software suites, it offers ready-made solutions and templates. In parallel, the React ecosystem includes an indefinite number of targeted tools to combine, with ReactJS acting as one of the cornerstones among others.
Benefits of AngularJS
• The help of the global community is one of the factors that can easily make Angular the best JavaScript development environment. Developers and creators collaborate and contribute continuously to the community, which enhances the credibility and reliability of this development environment.
• It is a complete development environment, able to run on any browser and any platform. In addition, it is consistent, it is full of tools ready to use, its components are robust and mature, unlike React.
• Bidirectional data association is probably the most popular feature because it reflects the effects of each minor change in data while eliminating the need for additional effort to synchronize view and model data.
Since our company often uses Angular2 (ng2), it is necessary to also present a comparison of React and Angular 2.
• TypeScript is an enhanced superset of JavaScript that provides static and optional verification of input, object-based programming patterns, and high-performance input features.
• Due to a component-based architecture, these are closely related, and each contains only functionally relevant elements. In addition, they are weakly coupled and encapsulated as they should. This approach allows components to be truly reusable, while improving their testability and maintainability.
Benefits of ReactJS
• JSX is a JS syntax that allows HTML citations and the use of HTML markup when rendering subcomponents. It promotes the development of a machine-readable code and offers the possibility of constituting components in a single checked file at the time of compilation.
• The speed of rendering is one of React’s flagship features and gives it a definite advantage over Angular. This technology embeds methods for reducing the number of operations on the DOM, as well as optimizing and speeding up the update process. The Document Object Model (DOM) is very useful when managing large databases.
• The major difference between ReactJS and AngularJS is that React is centered on JS, while ng2 remains centered on HTML. JavaScript is much more robust than HTML, making React much simpler, more focused and more consistent. ReactJS encapsulates HTML in JavaScript, while others always place JS within HTML. Disadvantages of AngularJS
• Despite a comprehensive and clear manual, learning difficulty and complexity are some of AngularJS ‘main weak points. As with any client-side rendering technology in the comparative list of JavaScript development environments, programmers need to focus on security to ensure application reliability and security. However, with the arrival of Angular Universal and a pre-rendering option in ng2, this problem has been defused. Disadvantages of ReactJS
• When comparing the performance of React and Angular, it should be remembered that ReactJS is not a development environment in its own right; this is why integrating the UI library into a traditional VMC development environment requires a deeper knowledge of programming. It is still young and immature, given the number of tutorials, its limited ecosystem, etc.
• Apart from the advantages and disadvantages of ReactJS, it is also necessary to mention Flux, which is often used to provide structure and architecture for React applications. The use of these two technologies may be difficult for a novice programmer, as there is still a lack of structured and comprehensive documentation or procedure.
Conclusion
React and Angular offer completely contrary approaches to the development of web applications for start-ups, as well as small and medium-sized businesses.
These technologies offer both power and flexibility, none triumphs or capitulates to the other. Depending on the objectives of each application and the constraints of a given system, developers can go from ng2 to React, and vice versa.
The choice of Angular usually involves the creation of the backbone of a front-end application, while ReactJS can be implemented to improve parts of it. In addition, it can be integrated with other development environments, such as Backbone or the famous Angular.
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