Facebook's React vs AngularJS: A Closer Look
When we launched React | A JavaScript library for building user interfaces two weeks ago there were a few comparisons to AngularJS ( Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS ). We already talked about how React works and its philosophy ( React | Why did we build React? ), but let's get a little more concrete and look at React and Angular code side-by-side. To set the record straight: React components are far more powerful than Angular templates; they should be compared with Angular's directives instead . So I took the first Google hit for "AngularJS directive