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I usually evaluate frameworks based on the job market. In the UK there are currently 298 jobs for Angular and 109 for React (www.cwjobs.co.uk). React is up on around 40 jobs at the beginning of the year.

The reality is that you should know Angular AND you should know React. These are not mutually exclusive.

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Yes, but whey you get to influence what to use you should know what you want and why. For the time being I don't recommend starting with angular unless you already know angular 1 or know that your first release won't be until the fall 2016.

It's not like angular 1 has been put down. It is still a fine framework for building product.

When you say "up around 40 jobs", do you keep a historical graph on these stats? It would be an interesting read!

I just remember looking into various frameworks at the beginning of the year and trying to evaluate if React was "worth" getting into.

I'm very pragmatic about frameworks. Yes, React might be technically better than Angular 2, but it has to be better at putting food on the table. It probably will be.

In the meantime, there are a lot of Angular 1 projects that will need migrating to Ang 2.

Will people bother to migrate though? I think they might just stick with what they have and if they do need to upgrade frameworks they may very well steer away from angular altogether.

Depends if they want to keep their devs. Not moving is not an option. You just need to be coding defensively.

Indeed allows you to search for terms historically (like a Google trends for jobs): http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=angularjs%2C+angular%2C+re...

React as a term is understandably a bit polluted though.

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