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Posted by Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa
19,039 Points

React or Angular

All,

I been asked to make a static website for a friend and was wondering seeing as i want to make it quickly as possible i was thinking of either doing it React or Angular js. But which would be best? Or should i just for get the whole thing and do it in HTML with some JQUERY?

Thanks for the help!!!

1 Answer

David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points
David Bath
David Bath
25,940 Points

Are you familiar with either React or AngularJS? Considering that you said you want to make it "quickly as possible", if you are not familiar with either of these technologies then I would suggest you build it using tools you already know. And since you said that it would be a static website, there's really not much point to using either of those things (unless you want the challenge). Depending on your skill level, you could put together a nice looking static website using just HTML and CSS (and maybe some jQuery) in a weekend. If you have to learn React or AngularJS first then it would probably take you much longer, and even then it's questionable why you'd want to use React. AngularJS can be useful, but by no means necessary for a small static site.

Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa
19,039 Points

My skill level is mid level.. I know AngularJS but I was thinking it might be a good opportunity to learn React i want to build something quickly with minimal lines of code possible, re-use as many nodes as possible.

So many technologies that do the samething is confusing