I'm curious what Angular 2 is like for developers who normally write React? I hear 2 is a lot better than 1, but I'm still turned off by the amount of Angular-specific terminology, whereas most of React terminology is not necessarily React-specific.
Me too. Impression, admittedly only from reading about it and looking at a few code samples, is that Angular 2 is over engineered and complected, as is 1.x, which I have worked in daily for over a year. ReactJs is much more appealing these days.
I've used and followed Angular 2 somewhat over the past year. My take is that React is better for engineers familiar with JavaScript, while Angular may be more comfortable for engineers with a preference for Java/C#. I don't mean that in a bad way; it's simply been my experience that people coming from those languages love what they see of Angular 2, and are repelled by React.
It's not hard to see why. This code[0] from Angular 2 would just be a function in React:
@Pipe({
name: 'tempConvert'
})
// The work of the pipe is handled in the tranform method with our pipe's class
class TempConvertPipe implements PipeTransform {
transform(value: number, args: any[]) {
if(value && !isNaN(value) && args[0] === 'celsius') {
var temp = (value - 32) * 5/9;
var places = args[1];
return temp.toFixed(places) + ' C';
}
return;
}
}
[0] https://auth0.com/blog/2015/09/03/angular2-series-working-wi...