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From the official website of both technologies: React: "A JavaScript library for building user interfaces" AngularJS: "AngularJS is a structural framework for dynamic web apps".

So, aren't they two different things? (Honest question since I haven't play with React yet).

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Yes, they are. React deals with more of the templating side of things (many people use it as the V in MVC, or in some cases as the V & C). But along with React, Facebook also released their Flux architecture which isn't a framework but a new approach to the MV* pattern which many people are using with React. Part of the Flux architecture is a concept called "Dispatcher" which handles the flow of data throughout the app. Facebook did release their code for their implementation of a Dispatcher but not much else. So React + Flux can act as a complete framework, but React alone does not.

The combination of React with a data/state management pattern such as Flux (https://facebook.github.io/flux/) is fairly analogous. You can also just use something like Backbone models (for example) with React if you want to use a more 'traditional' JS MVC pattern.

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