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With so many new JavaScript libraries emerging every day, it’s hard to choose which one is the best fit for your development project. Angular and React are two of the most popular frameworks, but are they really as different as many people think? Take a look at this comparison between Angular and React JS and decide for yourself whether Angular or React is better for your development needs.

Progressive Web Apps
PWA is a combination of an app, website and browser that work together to create one holistic product. This means web apps are more responsive, they can be added to home screens, and they’re faster than traditional websites. If you’re looking to update your current web apps or create a new one from scratch, progressive web apps are a surefire way to take your digital products to another level.

Maintainability and Cost Savings
Since React is component-based, it’s quite easy to pick up and learn. It reduces maintenance cost as you don’t need to know everything about whole code base. In case of a single page application, people have to maintain only those small parts where data is displayed and user actions are performed. Thus, it could minimize costs of future maintenance and upgrades significantly. On top of that, learning curve is much faster when compared with Angular or other frontend frameworks like VueJs.

TypeScript Support
Angular’s two-way data binding is a blessing when you are working with TypeScript, which is a superset of JavaScript. While Angular offers features to help you write code in TypeScript, it isn’t required to work with Angular apps. But since most new development projects start off by defining their requirements, it makes sense to use what’s recommended.

Open Source Community Support
Since both Angular and React are open source, they have a community of developers creating libraries, tools, and plugins that can help you be more productive. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or help with a problem, chances are there’s an established library or plugin that can help out.

Event Handling (RxJS Observables)
Angular 2 comes with built-in support for RxJS Observables. If you’re not familiar with observables, think of them as an asynchronous version of events. As such, Angular 2 supports binding to events from properties and methods that emit events through a reactive programming interface (RxJS). Whereas Angular 1 relied on a callback mechanism for handling DOM events in its controllers and directives, Angular 2 can leverage RxJS to take advantage of observable streams.

Routing (NgRx Store)
The routing library for Angular is pretty limited and very tightly coupled with Angular’s core. However, you can use libraries like ngRx to get your routes data from a store instead of manually setting up your router-outlet. This gives you a lot more freedom and flexibility when using routes. With NgRx, every route has its own state, actions and reducers that are independent of other routes’ states.

State Management (NgRx Store, NgRx Effects)
Both Angular and React.js offer a solution for state management with Redux-like libraries; however, for most smaller applications one of these may be more than sufficient. If you’re interested in using JavaScript to implement state management, check out our tutorial on using NgRx Store to manage application state in Angular and our explanation of Redux in both Angular vs React.js. We also have an introduction to ngrx effects which can further help streamline your app’s interactions with its data store(s).

UI Components from Native Mobile Frameworks
UI components that look like they belong in your mobile operating system are popular for a reason. They’re fast, easy to use, and work seamlessly with any pre-existing apps on your phone. In some cases, you can simply take over parts of an app using IAPs (in-app purchases). And while development costs may be higher than creating custom UI components from scratch, they are usually well worth it in terms of user experience and overall cost.