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React vs Angular2: The fight rages on

React vs Angular2: The fight rages on

Google’s Angular and Facebook’s React are now most popular tools for building browser (and not only) applications. Both are great solutions. While Angular2 is still in beta it has been already tested by few Google developer teams – AdWords, GreenTea and Fiber. List of applications built with React is really long and you can find there names like Instagram, Netflix, PayPal and many more.Brutal war is coming.

Static Typing in JavaScript & Best Tools to Do It

There are three popular possibilities – jsDoc (with e.g. Google Closure Compiler), Facebook Flow and Microsoft TypeScript. First one uses comment like annotations – does not corrupt pure JS – while next two extend JS so they have to be transpiled. I will compare them briefly in a moment.