Why you should choose Angular over React

Ok, so I wrote a post about why I felt React was a bad library and another one about why I thought Angular was better and you guys had some thoughts. So rather than try and go through and respond to all of you individually, even though I’d really like to, I’m just going to try and respond to common themes in your responses.

For reference here are the other 2 posts I’m referring to (in order):

1. Why we need to stop using React
2. Why We Should Throw Out React and Pick Up Angular

You don’t have to read them if you don’t want to, but if you’re interested there they are.

Here are the top 5 most common responses/criticisms to my other posts:

1. Most of the React issues are just caused by bad developers writing bad code.
2. You don’t offer any solution or alternative.
3. This is all based on personal experience and I want to see more evidence.
4. I use React and my application is fine.
5. Angular is bloated, slow, stupid, etc., etc.

Before we hop right into it, I want to point out a 6th one that I’m going to try not to spend any time responding to. You know what I’m talking about, the people who just like to hear themselves talk. People who just…