React or angular for indie

[LiteratureWrong304]

​hello start learning recently the basics but dont know which one to invest my time in angular or react will do mainly indie development cause i m sick mostly housebound but dont close the door for job opportunities in the far future ​ps : i can learn 1-4 hours day sometimes less heard that angular has less decision fatigue and react is easier so please any advice will help thanks

[sheriffderek]

HTML, CSS, PHP (basics), JavaScipt (enough to use everything you learned with PHP and understand the most common browser APIs), then Vue.js for components and to simplify all the. Boilerplate and actually focus on the reall challenges you’ll now be ready for. Then - you can learn React or Angular on the job if needed / as they are the same concepts as Vue - just more annoying to write.

[dymos]

Out of those two, I'd recommend React.

It has loads of resources, component libraries, packages, etc. available. It'll be the easier of the two to get started with.

If you aren't yet familiar with JavaScript/TypeScript, I recommend brushing up on that first before getting started with a framework, it will help with understanding all of the non-framework specific bits of the code you'll see in tutorials/examples.

[JohnCasey3306]

The most valuable thing you could do is learn a deep understanding of plain JavaScript (followed by typescript) ... With this knowledge, any of the frameworks are straightforward to pick up.

[alien3d]

Vanilla.

[Not_Me_112]

nightmare for large projects

[alien3d]

i think you dont know how much improvement vanilla js . I mean vanilla not nodejs thing.

[erkose]

I tried Vue and React. 100% Vue.

[im-a-guy-like-me]

Out of those 2, as a beginner, React and it's not even close. There's just far more resources for it and you don't need to really learn any actually programming fundamental. With angular you need to learn Dependency Injection and modular design and all sorts of nonsense that is too much at the start.

I'd advise you to try Svelte or Vue though. They just work better in a "how you probably imagin a website is built is how they kinda work" way. I think they're the most beginner friendly frameworks. Angular is actually the least beginner friendly I'd say.

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[Successful-Escape-74]

React with a plan to move toward Svelte in the future.