Sharepoint Framework - should developers be learning React?

Hi !

IMHO, I really do think you should use the framework/libraries you and your team are confortable with if there is one.

React is indeed one of the preferred Framework for building SPFx, because I think, it suits "better" to the concept of WebPart: "A reusable component with properties".

Moreover, React is a Framework that only take care (natively) of the View layer, no built-in "services", "binding", "routing", ... while Angular is a huge Franework that embeds all of these.

For me, it is kind of confusing with all that already exists in SPFx.

That said, As Pieter Veenstra mentioned it, Sébastien Levert has started great stuff about how to use Angular in SPFx.

But anyway, it is still HTML and JS, so if you are already (really) up to speed with another framework, you should use it. On the contrary, If you have only a little experience with it, why not learning React ?(which is, BTW, quite easy to learn).

I would think, also, that learning fundamentals of React which is massively used in documentation and samples will help you reading and understanding them.

Cheers,

Yannick