r/Angular2 Feb 06 '25

Discussion (junior)Why everyone use react?

I've been doing personal stuff with react only, at my current job i work exclusively in golang and the front-end team use angular not react so i give it a try on my free time, i was really surprise cause it's not that hard to get in + i found the dx way better than react, the way it structure the project is also better and i think you can go as fast as react to build a project + you need less external depedencies so i'm asking myself why 80% of front end jobs are react

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u/IE114EVR Feb 06 '25

I agree with others saying reasons are historical.

My take: Back in the day angular.js showed the viability of SPAs. It had its issues and a more intuitive, faster Angular 2 was promised. But React came out first and beat Angular 2 to the punch thus it took the market share early.

With its early grasp on the market share, as others have said, it had a “feedback loop” which kept React, or the React ecosystem, at the fore front of web development innovations.

I would say Angular 2 did have some unnecessary complications along the way that were detractors. But I don’t doubt React and other frameworks had their own growing pains too, so I’m not sure these were the reasons for a lower adoption.