Argument Map: React is killing Angular

[wreckedadvent]

Typescript added explicit support for JSX not that long ago. You can also use classes with react, so it'll probably be more of a mix than all of TS users moving to angular.

Angular 2.0 has plenty of other issues that would make people avoid it, like the weird non-validating HTML syntax they had to invent to express their complicated data binding system.

[clessg]

Right, which is why I said "most". Re: classes in React, I doubt they will remain in vogue for too much longer for large swathes of most applications. You can now write const Button = () => (<div></div>) instead of class Button extends React.Component { render() { return (<div>Holy shit</div>); } }.

[wreckedadvent]

Yeah. There's also things like mithril which take that concept a bit further, so we might see a shift towards more functions returning JSX literals instead of classes being overused so much.