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Ask HN: Which would you use for a new Project (ReactJS or AngularJS)?

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Re: Ask HN: Which would you use for a new Project (ReactJS or AngularJS)?

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Post by thomasab »

delluminatus wrote: post #8
smt88 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try inheriting a project with lots of "magic". Or even just revisiting one that you did a long time ago. It sucks. I believe you that Angular was easy for you to learn. I was just saying I've never heard of anyone else feeling the same way.

Yeah, it totally sucks. That is one of the reasons that, in projects that I expect to be maintaining for a long time, I shy away from frameworks with inversion of control, like Angular or Rails. I prefer the wiring to be exposed, so to speak, because it makes it easier for everyone to know what's going on. It also makes it easier to drop or upgrade your 3rd party dependencies without rewriting everything.

Could you please point me to a framework without IOC. Was planning to use rails. thanks

Re: Ask HN: Which would you use for a new Project (ReactJS or AngularJS)?

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Post by gvinter »

smt88 wrote: post #4
delluminatus wrote: post #3

I've made applications using both React and Angular. Qualitatively, Angular is way easier to get started, but React "feels nicer" (it's hard to explain, but because you have to handle a lot of the eventing and message passing yourself, you feel like you understand your own app a lot better. Angular is a framework, with inversion of control -- React is just a library). IMO, you should use Angular, unless you: 1. Need…

This reads like satire, because who the hell would not want to build something solid or understand what's happening in their app? Also, the most common complaint about Angular is that it's very hard to understand, very opaque, and lacking in documentation, so your only "pro" for Angular is a pretty unusual one.

Plenty of projects just need to be built to test. My apps would never be built and then rev'd if they were built to be "rock solid" in their first iteration. It's important to have frameworks that get apps off the ground quicker.

Re: Ask HN: Which would you use for a new Project (ReactJS or AngularJS)?

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Post by smt88 »

gvinter wrote: post #12
smt88 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reads like satire, because who the hell would not want to build something solid or understand what's happening in their app? Also, the most common complaint about Angular is that it's very hard to understand, very opaque, and lacking in documentation, so your only "pro" for Angular is a pretty unusual one.

Plenty of projects just need to be built to test. My apps would never be built and then rev'd if they were built to be "rock solid" in their first iteration. It's important to have frameworks that get apps off the ground quicker.

I don't believe "rock solid" and "fast" are mutually exclusive. There are good libraries in most languages that offer both.
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