This feels like an argument made by somebody who has never built a serious project in either, and has instead formed an opinion based on quick glance at the respective syntaxes.
To me, Angular is what HTML and the DOM would look like if they had been designed from the beginning for application development:
- Custom elements backed by controller classes.
- Data-binding and event-binding syntax baked into HTML
- Component style encapsulation, on by default.
React seems far more like a project created by people who dislike front-end development: As I recall the genesis of the project was to replace traditional DOM mutation with a more PHP-esque approach of updating state and re-rendering everything, just as you would do on the back-end.
To me, Angular is what HTML and the DOM would look like if they had been designed from the beginning for application development:
- Custom elements backed by controller classes. - Data-binding and event-binding syntax baked into HTML - Component style encapsulation, on by default.
React seems far more like a project created by people who dislike front-end development: As I recall the genesis of the project was to replace traditional DOM mutation with a more PHP-esque approach of updating state and re-rendering everything, just as you would do on the back-end.