Does Angular have any conceptual innovations that React doesn't? I've read deeply into both and it looks like both projects have identical goals, but React has simple and consistent principles while Angular is a mess.
Well Angular was initially released three years earlier than React was. Also, React is all about one-way data flows, and Angular is all about two-way bindings, so that's one noteable difference in goals.
Angular2 is not about two-way data binding. Angular2 is much more similar to React in that data flows downwards and events upwards.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize they had introduced significant changes to the conceptual model.