[aikah]

Well, if AngularJS 2.x is made of modular components as the team says one could be able to ditch Angular view layer and swap it with React.Angular got dependency injection right that allowed easy communication between multiple components. If they plan to ditch scopes and the digest cycle then there would be no relationship whatsoever between directives and injection. The only difference between Angular view layer and React would be the use of Typesript for the former and JSX for the later.

> It's as if ReactNative is being treated (strategically) as a more powerful version of PhoneGap.

ReactNative is like Titanium/Alloy. It uses native components to render views, not the DOM. So it has nothing to do with Phonegap except for the use of javascript.

[mts_]

> ReactNative is like Titanium/Alloy. It uses native components to render views, not the DOM. So it has nothing to do with Phonegap except for the use of javascript.

I believe the original poster was referring to the fact that Cordova's whole purpose is to be a testing ground for new browser APIs - and that the goal of the project is to basically become irrelevant at a later point because browser vendors hopefully will have implemented similar APIs.

Sort of like a testing ground for web standards.

But yes, in a technical sense React Native is closer akin to Titanium than Cordova/PhoneGap in its current state.

[woah]

I'm not that familiar with angular, but the whole advantage of react is that components don't need to communicate at all.

Angular seems to be a framework devoted to wrangling state. React eliminates state.

[olegbl]

> The only difference between Angular view layer and React would be the use of Typesript for the former and JSX for the later.

I think you meant either

1. the use of HTML for the former and JSX for the later

2. the use of TypeScript for the former and Flow for the later (this isn't true, can use either one with either framework)