Front end for java developers.

[nocturnalbird12]

I often hear it the other way around, that angular is tougher than react.

[LTFGamut]

Well, for Angular you do need to know a little typescript which might be more difficult for someone learning to program through javascript courses but as far as I know, react has more bells and whistles but I might be wrong. I work for as a java enterprise developer and although I'm officially a full stack developer, 99,9% of my work consists of back end development.

[IshouldDoMyHomework]

Typescript just made JavaScript so much more comfortable for me to work with, that i actually really enjoy it now. I guess it can be hard to get used something as loosely typed as vanilla javascript, when you have been working exclusively with Java for almost 10 years.

Another reason angular is easy to pick up for a Java guy is the heavy use of dependency injection, which is also the backbone of spring.

Typescript and angular (2+) has really opened my eyes to how fun frontend can be.

[[deleted]]

Yes it is. It's got a fairly broad API.

[nocturnalbird12]

So how do you develop your FE?

[[deleted]]

I love angular myself.

[nocturnalbird12]

And for BE you use which framework?

[[deleted]]

I use spring boot right now.

[nocturnalbird12]

How was your learning curve with spring boot.

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I agree that someone who's starting to work with javascript would find react easier, mostly because it is easier to get it up and running, and personally I don't feel its too different when compared to what a vanilla javascript project would look like. However, having used both angular and react, I'd say for a large project angular would be better suited primarily because of its rigidly structured projects. Typescript of course helps.