I took it as a statement of "someone new to the framework, can quickly rewrite their old code" if they came from Angular.
Which is an important metric.
When I converted a Backbone app to Angular, it took 3x as long simply because of the amount of ceremony and process that I had to go through to do things the idiomatic Angular way.
React on the other hand, as a view layer, is so dead simple that you can internalize its workings within hours of study. The complexity with React comes with everything else---Redux, React-Router, GraphQL, CSS in React, etc.
None of that stuff is defined as part of the React framework itself, but that's the only way you can make a "fair comparison" to Angular which is a full-stack framework.
I took it as a statement of "someone new to the framework, can quickly rewrite their old code" if they came from Angular.
Which is an important metric.
When I converted a Backbone app to Angular, it took 3x as long simply because of the amount of ceremony and process that I had to go through to do things the idiomatic Angular way.
React on the other hand, as a view layer, is so dead simple that you can internalize its workings within hours of study. The complexity with React comes with everything else---Redux, React-Router, GraphQL, CSS in React, etc.
None of that stuff is defined as part of the React framework itself, but that's the only way you can make a "fair comparison" to Angular which is a full-stack framework.