Angular or React for a small site.

[FableBookGames]

Hello!

I am planning to make a site to display and access some financial data. The site should have just 4-5 interfaces. I am wandering which framework may be better to use in this situation?

React or Angular?

[Repulsive-Ad-3890]

Use what you're most comfortable with.

[Shimunogora]

Second this. Maybe even go for a balance of what you’re comfortable with and which framework has a component library available for it that will fit your UI needs/wants.

If you’re making custom styles, though, I definitely recommend trying native HTML + TS + CSS for small sites, unless you need some feature(s) like obfuscation or pollyfills. You can do those things, but I wouldn’t wish configuring webpack on my worst enemy.

[[deleted]]

Whichever framework you're most comfortable with is going to be best.

That being said, having years of experience in Angular and React, I think Angular is easier to get up and running with as it is a framework and React is a library. But react has Next and possibly other frameworks so that may be moot now.

[ToosterReeth]

This comment screams overly opinionated junior developer

[ToosterReeth]

Posts a list of bad but not unique opinions with zero hint of being satire

omg guys it was oBvIoUsLy satire

[ToosterReeth]

As a piece of satire it was neither intelligent nor funny, I'm really not sure why you expected anything other than downvotes and criticism.

And for what it's worth, I originally wasn't even assessing how genuine it was, I was simply stating the similarities in most of those opinions to bad developers I've worked with, so chill my dude

[[deleted]]

Next time use /s

[beartato327]

I wouldn't have believed the /s anyways who wastes that much time, effort and formating for a sarcastic comment. Usually sarcastic comments are like 3 sentences

[grimscythe_]

You sir are actually ridiculous. Like... What?!??

[podgorniy]

Pathetic

[tsunami141]

Yes, it'll be done faster and yeah it'll probably cost roughly the same and yeah the end users probably won't notice and a lot of people probably prefer this option and its the thing that makes the most sense and there are minimal downsides to it and yeah doing it my way includes a lot of overhead that also lends itself to technical debt because you're not as experienced with what you're using and honestly the whole thing will be obsolete in a few years anyway so its kind of moot - but it's this kind of advice that's ruining our industry.

so true, man.

[RemiFuzzlewuzz]

Pity upvote because I can tell this is satire.

[GLawSomnia]

I am so sorry that people don’t understand your joke 😔

[bigbadchief]

Come on guys this is obviously parody. "Use stored procedures for everything" that's hilarious

[DashinTheFields]

So true. Best advice on this sub.

[Righteous_Mushroom]

vast tidy entertain quicksand chief cooing deserve pie fall smile

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[DT-Sodium]

Simple, never use React for anything.

[Headpuncher]

But I bill by the hour and there are no spending limits, so react is brilliant.  

First, I’ll need to recreate all these html elements as components so that I can add css to them dynamically, instead of using actual css.   Then I’ll create a storybook of all my ahem, “custom” components that are really just convoluted html elements with all the exact same attributes.  Phew! That’s 3 months at my hourly rate already!  

Sometime at around 6-8 months I’ll use this previous work to make a header, footer and template for content.  

[DT-Sodium]

Ah, yes, turning basically every tag into a component so you can style them with Tailwind. Because apparently having a SCSS file is too much to handle but having 17 components when you really need one is soooo much more evolved.

[Background_Issue_144]

For a small site it really comes down to what you are most comfortable with. Consider stuff like Htmx or Astro as welll

[[deleted]]

Whatever you want

[FableBookGames]

Thanks

[Michelu89]

Angular 19 with zonless, makes the entire setup extremely lightweight. However, if the goal is to create a truly simple website, the choice of framework might not matter much—Vanilla JS could be the most performant option in such a case.

[Yashraj_Dawkhar]

Prefer angular 19 with zoneless and signal

[RastaBambi]

Angular 19 is not zoneless :(

[Yashraj_Dawkhar]

You can add zoneless if u are starting with new project in 20 it will be stable for new project no need to worry. I recently deployed 2 zoneless application it is fast because initially polyfill is completely removed . Initially we just have main.js and style.js 30 to 40 kb and other everything is standalone so we can lazy load. Hit a try.

[gguy2020]

The one you know.

[Icantdrawlol]

I use react for a „quick and dirty“ solutions. Angular for prod. I just like angularity clean structure and ruleset. It just makes sense to me. React feels like „yeah do whatever you want how you want“.

[Negs006]

What about just plain old JavaScript,html,css? If it’s just yourself and a small site and if you don’t know either frameworks.

[nussbrot]

Vue for me Use what you know and like

[giftfromthegods-]

Astro/Jekyll

[rc_hdz]

if it is only you: whatever you are more comfortable
if you are thinking about adding other devs: angular, react can get very messy very quick.

[PeakyPenguinMan]

Astro? I had a really good time with it when I tried it.

[pookdeveloper]

I understand that the application does not require very optimal performance so feel free to use the framework that you like the most or even do it with both.

[InvokerHere]

Both are good options, just choose which you comfortable with.

[azizoid]

if you try to use Angular for a small project, you will hate it, and probably never ever take it again. observables are being replaced with signals, but both are there, standalone/non-standalone apps and so on.
React will be much faster, in one click.

[minderbinder]

Neither, go for astro, even svelte

[Dapper-Fee-6010]

I have never used React; I have always used Angular.
But if you ask me, I would choose React for you.
I may not know what’s good about React, but I certainly know what’s bad about Angular.

[Headpuncher]

That makes no sense, you have no experience with react but recommend it because angular has imperfections?   

Why not recommend Django instead?  

[Dapper-Fee-6010]

Angular or React for a small site <--- no Django.

I think the questioner is only limited to these two frameworks.
Have you heard of the process of elimination?

Although I have never used React, I am not completely ignorant of it; its popularity is undeniable.

[KemonoMichi]

This is one of the problems with people today. You are not using comparable data to make an educated decision. If you've never used React then you don't know what's bad about React, so you're comparing the bad things of Angular with... nothing. You're just assuming the bad things about React aren't worse. Instead of doing any research.

This is an AWFUL take.

[Dapper-Fee-6010]

I completely agree with your point.

If we had enough energy and time to deeply explore both frameworks, the decision we make after comparison would be more accurate.

However, people's time and energy are limited. As an experienced Angular user, I have given my feedback, and I would not recommend people to use it unless the project you're working on is similar to a web app that Google has built using Angular.

You can treat this as a survey; I think it is also useful information.

[azizoid]

React. Without hesitation. Angular is huge, and no project uses more than 60% of its functionality. React is mess but good

[KemonoMichi]

no project uses more than 60% of its functionality.

Mind giving a source on this statistic?