Frontend Development

When you have a lightweight app in which the developers should be able to code in a less restrictive style with more liberties, then React is a sensible choice. It is also better suited and easier to handle for straightforward websites that don’t require a lot of architectural considerations. Angular, on the other hand, is an incredibly exhaustive and wide-ranging solution whose potential can be fully harnessed in enterprise-scale web apps.

What makes Angular stand out compared to the alternatives? The framework is characterised by clearly defined best-practice guidelines, an abundance of out-of-the-box functionalities, consistent release cycles, a high degree of independence from external dependencies and a strictly modular structure.

In the following, we will go into more detail about these and other features such as complementary tools and libraries for the framework.

It is developed by Facebook and used in one of our largest ongoing projects, PicMonkey. Especially when choosing between Angular and React, it is important to highlight that the two frameworks are suitable for different types of projects and coding styles. React is popular with startups due to its lower complexity and fast default performance, and it allows developers to take much more liberties with the structure of their applications. In contrast, Angular’s many features lend themselves especially well to enterprise applications.

The contrast between open source and proprietary software has characterised the IT sector for some time. Today, the situation is somewhat different: while many popular frameworks and technologies such as .NET Core are known to be owned by software giants such as Microsoft, they are often openly licensed and managed as open source projects. But what are the advantages for developer communities when companies move to an open source model? We will go into this in more detail on the following page.