I think these points could be for 'hip' frameworks in general. As a developer, it's tiring keeping up with the latest and greatest AT ALL TIMES. Anyone have a good comparison of React and Angular that cuts through the hype?
React and angular.js don't really solve the same problems (though angular 2 is incorporating some react-like techniques). React is only the V (arguably a bit of C) from MVC, where as angular.js provides all three but does a rather crappy job on V IMHO. ng-react supposedly let's you use them together but I haven't tried it yet (I plan on it).
Yes, but beef I have with the cool kids I've worked with are they throw out the entire app: MVC, Server, etc. so they can use this magical V - then completely rewrite and wing the rest of the app "Oh it's, um, 'Flux Architecture'"
I'd like to read that too actually. The new place I'm working is all Angular on the front end. Seems decent enough, but I haven't tried many JS frameworks, and haven't messed with React at all, despite all the buzz about it lately.
I honestly don't know if there's any point to trying to learn it over getting better at Angular when we have so much invested in Angular, and there's a new coolest JS framework every other week anyways.