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I guess the license doesn't cause much pain currently and if I have to sue and lost the license I could always have A2 in my back pocket.

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If you're only using React with ES6/ES2015, you could also try Preact. I've found it to be a pretty decent drop-in replacement for React. There's also a preact-compat package that supports some additional React features.

You bring up a good point. The biggest point of using React for me was using React-Native which Preact doesn't seem to have. I could definitely use Preact for most of my projects as I really only use React for its ability to make front-end components with ES6, so I will have to look in more detail. Thanks for the reference.

You're welcome. You're correct that there's no React Native equivalent for Preact.

That might be a point in favor of Angular 2 where you need code that can be shared between mobile and web apps. Nativescript is similar to React Native, and has built in support for Angular 2.

I'm not one of a bandwagon jumper, but I have been hearing similarly nice things about Angular 2 being equally as un-opinionated as React in many ways. I just hate losing the momentum that I currently have with React/Rails apps.

One of the nice things is that you don't necessarily have to lose all your momentum.

There's a bit of a learning curve, but you'd find that A2 components are similar to React components, and have similar lifecycle methods. So although some of the specifics about how you do things are different, you can use the same patterns and practices you've been using with React.

That's not to say that you should move to Angular 2. Just that many of the good habits and practices you've developed while using React are portable.

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