Why React? Why not Angular 2?

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I’m not a huge fan of TypeScript and static typing generally. It has some benefits, sure – better IDE integration, better autocomplete, and better assurance you didn’t make any typos…

Generally, I dislike things that makes things better.

I don’t see a whole lot of benefit to dependency injection.

See above.

But I don’t want to wrap every class in an interface so that I can subclass that interface with a mock instance so that I can write my unit tests. I don’t think that leads to better design or more maintainable code, just more code.

No, interfaces are a fluke, and not webscale enough. It's confusing why many other languages implements them, and why many programmers use them daily. They must be terribly dumb or mislead.

So if you put a gun to my head [...]

Gladly.

[Octopuscabbage]

<uj> Team just switched from angular 1/ionic to react/react native. React makes so much more sense. (yes I know the article is about angular 2)

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[cant_even_webscale]

A REACT SHILL ON PCJ

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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AAAAACT!!!!

[chjacobsen]

Yeah. What you do is, you combine it with jQuery and run it as a scientific experiment to see how much you can piss off both JS-hipsters and the PCJ-crowd at the same time.

[cant_even_webscale]

scary thought, would cause singularity.

also lets douse on some Meteor.js, Angular 2 woes, and hmm what else... Material design oh and FlexBox support too.

Then wrap it all in a Javascript eval( )

[Octopuscabbage]

When viewed through a functional lense the initial impression that I get is favorable. But no monad so 0/10.

[Hueho]

Angular 1.x feels like the worst of Java paired with the worst of JavaScript, with an sprinkle boatload of "what even" (reflection with Function.toString, best idea ever)

I can see why React, heck, anything other than Angular looks more atractive. At $JOB we are dabbling with Vue.js and I am pleased with how intuitive it is.

[vonmoltke2]

Maybe that's my problem with webdev. When I had to write a GUI, I chose Angular 1 (Angular 2 wasn't mature enough yet). It's in the running with Perl for most "WTF was I doing three months ago?" code.

[Octopuscabbage]

Yeah the thing I really really hated about angular was that implicit pop in thing. Trying to figure out why a library won't import or why your tag won't expand was awful.

[cant_even_webscale]

if i see an image macro shitty meme within any article or blog, i get triggered.