Angular to React: Gradual Migration vs. Rewrite from Scratch – Netlify

Having done this for a client there’s a massive “rest of the owl” situation between steps 4 and 5. The transition to a component based architecture can be pretty hairy based on how cleanly things were implemented before, using isolated vs. inherited $scope’s, etc.

I suspect many companies were a bit too fast to adopt angular / react to begin with, so the real first step is to do an audit and make sure you need a SPA to begin with, over a simpler server-rendered site with progressive enhancement. Very, very few projects need the complexity that comes with react or angular.

As always best bet is to start with stupid simple and optimize desire paths based on real world use.

The article is about Angular JS 1.x to React. It will be good if the title could reflect this.