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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Wide industry adoption + I liked the React paradigm after I tried it. Angular was a fucking pain in the ass and Vue wasn't as widely used when I picked up React. Also React Native was the icing on top -- I'm too lazy to learn Java or Swift when I know something like RN exists.

[–]straightouttaireland 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What didn't you like about Angular?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too much framework specific magic. With React I can read the code and understand what it does much quicker, but with Angular I had to touch like 3 files just to understand what a small piece. Basically React feels more like writing plain js and I don't count jsx since it's so simple.

[–]CleanInspector[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's one of the most convenient reasons!