Is React really that good? Some say if you don't know React you are doing JS wrong. But everyone says that for everything.

Stay away from js

@lostpirate I am a front end developer dude

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Things like this...

@eshwarenm oh well, then react has better approach than Angular IMO

Try it , create something with react and see for yourself because everyone prefers different approaches and ways of thinking aand that doesnt tell you much about it.i personnally prefer it to angular

@lostpirate Once you understand how coercion works (5 mins max), those results aren't surprising at all.

I definitely prefer it - because it isn't a framework itself, you get a lot more flexibility adding other tools based on the project. I'm not familiar with Angular 2 yet, but after the mess that Angular was, React felt like a high performing dream.

@Livie is react a substitute to angular js ? Which do u suggest I learn next angular 2 or react js?

React is great just not as good as it's made out to be.

Don't listen to the naysayers. React I'd AMAZING! If you have anything to write for a website or frontend which needs to communicate with an API of some spry. you'll love it. jQuery is gone and you have a web components system which just works, you can hook it together with redux, thunk, and fetch and build a REST interface with it easily. All of those problems of writing a PHP website using jQuery to asynchronously access the server and all its fragile code, all gone, there literally isn't anything not to like about react on the front end, be it native or otherwise, oh yeah and its wayyyyyyyy simpler than angular

@amateur64 I'm not sure I'd call it a direct substitute (since React alone is just a library), but using React with Redux or whatever you wanna use should let you do the same things as Angular. I can't say I'm familiar with anything else I'd recommend.

Everyone feels differently about this. I don't like React that much. It's still better than Angular 2 though. My personal favorite is Vue.

Okay, I'll give it a try. But do you guys know any good YouTube tutorials on react?