[ggregoire]

Angular and React are like black and white when we talk about time of learning.

Simply because :

- Angular is a full framework including html templating, directives, components, controllers, services, router, xhr abstractions ($http and $resource), dependency injection, two-way data binding by default, one-way data binding if you want (to fix performance issues) and the list can continue. Plus, you need to set and learn a style guide [1] and some good practices because, if you have 2 developers, none of them will code in Angular in the same way.

=> it took me weeks to learn, and months to master.

- React is just a library to build views. You code 90% of your time in basic JS and 10% in React APIs (basically: states, props, lifecycle methods and that's it).

=> it took me 1 hour to learn, and 1 week to master.

If you want to learn React, you just need to read the official tutorial [2].

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[1] https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide

[2] https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

[verletx64]

This is pretty misleading as a comparison, yes you can learn React itself very shortly, but the ecosystem around it will probably bring you much closer to Angular learning times, and that's also without the AngularJS documentation which is top notch.

I prefer React to AngularJS but I don't think it's fair to tell half the story when comparing them.

[bostonvaulter2]

But the downside to learning react is learning the react ecosystem, redux, other flux frameworks, etc.