The prevailing opinion on HN seems to be that React is great, and monolithic frameworks are bad bad bad - especially Angular.
On a recent project I started for a client, we did a full evaluation of React + Redux vs Angular 2/4 and NGRX.
Angular's first-class support for TypeScript, and RxJS is incredible when leveraged properly. Integrate this with NGRX for Redux style state management, and you get a compelling solution that is miles ahead of the React/Redux combo if you can get over the template syntax (instead of JSX) and the opinionated flavour of Angular.
It's difficult to offer an alternative opinion in the HN echo chamber, but we're having excellent results using Angular CLI + Angular 4 + RxJS + NGRX. It's worth the steeper learning curve, IMHO.