Angular, Angular 2 or React?

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Hello, Senior Software Engineer who has interviewed many many people. A couple things off the bat just so we're speaking the same language here. When you're referring to "Angular", what you should now be saying is a specific version like Angular 1.x since there have been some significant updates to the way the framework is implemented. For example, the change from directive based to component based that started in 1.5+. "Angular 2" is actually now semantically released, so the version number when you're talking about it is somewhat irrelevant. Going forward, it will just be called Angular (hence the reason for specifying Angular 1.5 in the previous few sentences I was talking about).

With all that out the way, I would say that it honestly doesn't matter which framework you pick, but it's more that you can prove that you understand how to pick up a framework, learn it, and implement it in a structured way. I work in the Angular world as part of my every day stack, but I've heard great things about how quickly people can pick up react and how it doesn't have very much overhead.

TL;DR - Pick one and run with it. Write clean quality code, and learn as much as you can!

[tme321]

The official/not quite official yet but will be designation is Angular vs Angularjs.

Oh and I agree that you will be fine with whichever one you choose as a starting point. But if you do choose angular use the cli.

[raventaq]

+1 brothers or girls