[Longwelwind]

Typescript with React is necessary for me. I feel like it highly increases my productivity when coding, and it makes it easy to refactor the code.

Plus you can do some cool things like Component inheritance.

I've never tried Flow, but I guess it's practically the same.

[sundvor]

I want to move on from Jquery... Have been learning C# on the back end for the past year and a bit, but now it's time to do the front end.

Looking at both A1 and A2 has confused me, so might just try React and see if that is more compatible with my ageing me. :) Nevertheless, I also really like the looks of Typescript. Could your possibly recommend a(n opinionated) way to get started with the two?

[doczoidberg]

I came from C# WPF/Winforms and have to say that Angular 2 is more familiar to me than react.

Of course the whole web stack is a new thing. Angular makes web app development much more productive.

[sundvor]

Interesting; perhaps I ought to learn both, at least to a certain minimum level - to assess where I'm at with each as such.

[throwaywgsid]

I have heard the same from many people. Angular takes the web and makes it look like traditional event driven UI. This is not a bad thing at all, it's how UI works in everything that isn't web.

React is a lot less abstraction and feels more natural to people that started out making UI with plain HTML.

Each has its merits but Angular uses way too much magic for my taste to make the web seem like something it's not. Much like a client side re-imagination of webforms

[lldata]

https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript

[sundvor]

Thanks - that looks good, will check it out.