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I do a lot of work using Postgres -> Grails -> jQuery, and I'm just now starting to think a lot more about picking a fancy new JS front-end framework to focus on. I'm torn between React and Angular, but leaning towards starting to invest time learning React.

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I found this tutorial featured previously on HN really helpful to start my transition from jQuery to React.

http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p...

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Hah, that description fits me to a "T". Thanks for sharing!

I actually enjoyed this intro to react. (Even tho PrivacyBadger gave me a hard time with JSBin).

I find learning React more fun because it’s a tiny part of what can make a webapp work, compared to Angular. So you have to sweat more details about what to use to compose the rest of your app, which makes you dive deeper into how to use the JS ecosystem effectively.

https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react was a great resource for this dive deeping (99.9% sure there’s a similar list for Angular if you went with that.)

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