AngularJS vs ReactJS for Web Development

AngularJS is a web application development framework and offers many solutions for functional designing. Like many other frameworks, starting a new project is not always the easiest thing to do. But after spending a little time reading up on it and playing around with it, you’ll get a good idea of what AngularJS has to offer.

The downside of AngularJS, you might find yourself battling with it when you should be working on your project. Unfortunately, if you try to make this framework do something it’s not designed to do or make a mistake, you are going to spend a great deal of time trying to figure out what to do. This is not, however, exclusive to this framework, AngularJS is an excellent framework and comes with an excellent community of tips and extensions.

ReactJS ecosystem, vs AngularJS, could be the answer with its many single-purpose tools. ReactJS is just one building block to help you out. You can just choose what you need for a particular project and come up with an answer for whatever problem you are experiencing.

The only problem with using this approach, you will have to spend some time trying to figure out which library you need for a particular assignment and how to integrate it with other libraries. You will also have to figure out the dissimilarities in libraries that are written by different developers who possibly use different practices and principles.

Those who are new to libraries, there will be a great number of questions popping up all over the place. But, with hands-on practice, it will become much easier to understand and use.

AngularJS and ReactJS offer different approaches

AngularJS and ReactJS offer different approaches for creating applications and one is not particularly better than the other. Depending on specific system requirements and the application, you will probably go back and forth from AngularJS and ReactJS. When using AngularJS, you are using it as the core framework for a frontend application. ReactJS will be used to improve a particular portion of the application. You can use ReactJS for a single page on your site or integrate it with a framework, such as AngularJS.

For frontend development, AngularJS is a great deal more convenient as it puts JavaScript into HTML. ReactJS, on the other hand, puts HTML into JavaScript which is not considered good practice. The ReactJS team believes the best solution to the problem is to generate HTML and component trees directly from JavaScript code so you can use all the expressive power of real programming language to build UIs. They have added a very simple, optional HTML-like syntax to create these tree nodes.

Without JSX, it is believed AngularJS is the better choice. That said, JSX is able to build more readable UI component code which will make things a great deal easier. Unfortunately, it will take some time before developers will feel comfortable with JSX.

Another difference between ReactJS and AngularJS is the binding tool. ReactJS has been a one-way binding tool whereas AngularJS 1.x is a two-way binding tool. The two-way binding tool has always been a favorite of many developers. With the development of AngularJS 2.x, it has dropped the two-way binding tool. That said, the one-way binding in AngularJS 2.x and ReactJS are not the same, the mechanisms are completely different. There is a much broader functionality in AngularJS 2.x in comparison to ReactJS.

Also, the one-way rendering flow in ReactJS is very straightforward, easy to understand and fast, in comparison to AngularJS 1.x two-way binding.

IDE

AngularJS development does not need anything special, you can use your chosen IDE with JavaScript support without any problems. With AngularJS 1.x, you will probably have to use ES5 and AngularJS 2.x will be TypeScript. You will manage templates in HTML files for both of them.

ReactJS allows you to see code written in ES5, ES6, and TypeScript but you will probably have to write JSX. This could lead to questions such as what scripting language should you use and is there IDE support? It is believed that the best option for IDE support is WebStorm. If this is not an option for you, use Microsoft Visual Studio and go for ES5 and TypeScript. First, install an extension that translates JSX into ES5 JavaScript. If you want ES6, it will be more work. You will need to use an editor like Atom along with Microsoft Visual Studio.

In a nutshell, it is possible to build a working development environment for all these options but it will take some work. Many IDE vendors are currently working on ES6 support and Microsoft Visual Code is also on the way.

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