It is through your website that users get a look at your business or your brand online. By exploring through it, the different inner pages, they get an idea of what you do, what you offer, how long you have been in the industry and so on; in fact, your website gives them all the information they need about you. So, you need to have a vibrant one. Making use of the front-end technologies, developers work on creating one for you.

The front end of a website, the part which the users see, such as the colours, fonts, drop-down menus, sliders and the various styles, all appear before them when developers combine HTML, JavaScript and CSS together.

Working with these three main languages, front-end developers create the website's architecture and design that assures an immersive user experience. When it comes to JavaScript frameworks, there are two front-end technologies that are widely used today: the Angular 5 and React. In this write-up, we will take a closer look at both these front-end technologies to decide on how to choose one while working with a project.

Angular 5

Founded in 2009, Angular is a JavaScript Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) framework which helps developers build highly interactive web applications. Lighter, faster and easy to use are the features of Angular 5.

Angular, which was created and is still maintained by Google was rated as the most popular front-end development framework in 2018 according to the StackOverflow Survey result.

• Material Design compatibilities.
• Angular Universal API and DOM.
• Simpler Progressive Web Applications.
• Router hooks.
• Build optimizer.
• Date, currency and number pipes update.
• Improved Typescript and compiler.
• Enhanced RXJS, faster compilation (which is under three seconds) and a new HttpClient launch.

Major Benefits Of Angular 5

• Angular 5 have a detailed documentation feature that allows individual developers to access all the information he or she needs without being dependent on his or her colleagues.
• The MVVM framework in Angular 5 allows developers to work distinctly on the same app section while using the same set of data.
• Singular behaviour for the app which is enabled by two-way data binding. This reduced the risks of possible errors.

Major Drawbacks Of Angular 5

• Migration issues may arise while you move from an older version to the newer versions.
• Though Angular 5 uses TypeScript 2.4 which is very easy to learn when compared to the older version, you might have some difficulty with the complex syntax that comes from the older versions, if you have to work with them any time.

React

This JavaScript library was open sourced by Facebook, one of the most used social media platform in 2013. React is perfect in building huge web applications that require its data changed on a regular basis.

Major Benefits Of React

• React is very easy to learn. It has a simple syntax which can be easily learned by developers. Engineers do not have to deeply learn TypeScript in Angular to work with React. They only need to brush up their HTML writing skills.
• React is a 100% open source JavaScript library which is frequently updated by with contributions from developers all over the world.
• It assures high levels of flexibility and maximum responsiveness.
• Migrations between the older and newer versions is generally quite easy. Facebook provides "codemods" that help automate parts of the whole migration process.
• Combined with ES6/7, the ReactJS can easily work with high load.

Major Drawbacks Of React

• There is no official documentation for React. Almost all the updates are contributed by individual developers from all over the world. Thus, it is a bit chaotic.
• The developers sometimes have too many choices. Thus, React is un-opinionated.
• ReactJS requires deep knowledge on how to integrate the user interface into the MVC framework. Thus, it might take quite some time for the developer to master his skills in using React.

Angular Vs. React

Angular

• Use Angular, if you want to separate the HTML for any design purposes.
• Requires the use of the Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) concepts.
• Development team has a large number of developers.
• Approached by the usage of TypeScript.
• Use a structure-based framework.
• Build hybrid applications.

React

• Use React, if you want to keep a single file for both JavaScript code and HTML code.
• Requires the use of big ecosystems.
• Development team has a large number of developers.
• Approached by the usage of JavaScript.
• Require flexibility.
• Build native applications.

Conclusion

Both Angular 5 and React is very useful for developing your projects, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is up to you on choosing one. Carefully look into what each can offer and select the best front-end technology that can satisfy your project requirements efficiently.