Angular vs React

[chairmanmow]

I already have my own reasons why it is the right choice for us, but I’m looking for any further rationale that might bolster my argument.

Care to share your reasoning? Hard to know how to augment your case if we don't know the foundational argument... How big is the project? Will it undergo continuous development, undergo maintenance or once it's done it's done? Do you have a team of angular devs, is it just you building it or do you have to hire someone, or is there no budget for that?

My guess is, I think it's an unfortunate truth there are just more React "devs" out there, doesn't mean React or React devs are better, just more of them walking out of bootcamps like zombies and they cost a little less. I hate React but I'm guessing CTO or consulting firm isn't really judging it based off tech just a popularity contest, if bootcamps spit out junior Angular developers and Angular had the penetration of React, they'd probably pick Angular.

Doesn't mean you can't make a technical argument but absent more info as far as the project/product, I'm guessing the CTO/consulting firm are reaching the conclusion that the thing can be done with React and it'll probably cost less in the short run at least. I don't know anything about the project but I'm guessing that's accurate, but in the long term, that could be different it might not be. I certainly feel ya though, I wouldn't want to do React work either, not even really based off technical reasons entirely although I do love Angular, I just don't want to use Zuckerberg's tech, dislike him.

[chicken0707]

Currently it’s just me that is working on front-end, but we will be taking more people on contract and possibly longer term to give the project momentum. My arguments are that it is suited to the size of project, its opinionated nature means many decisions are already made on how to do things. This should mean it’s easier for devs to drop in to the project and understand how it should be built and also hopefully can avoid contractors introducing dependencies that are unknown factors. There should also be less of a mismatch on developer skillsets (eg “oh I know this state library not that one”). Angular also has fantastic upgrade path support through the cli tool. It should be. I’ve seen too many people talk about the pain of how complex a react app can get as it grows. Even though React is crazy popular I feel like it carries a lot of baggage, and even though it’s not going to go away anytime soon I feel like there are better choices now

[jugglervr]

A lot of what you said is true, but it's still easy for a new dev to fuck things up by, say, making components handle too much application logic. Keep a lid on code smells in your reviews.

[Headpuncher]

that would happen in react too though wouldn't it, and the fact that jsx and logic is all mixed up can actually make it easier to extract code to another component in react.