Preface
The year is 2014 and the war of Single-Page Application (SPA) solutions is truly raging. There are many rivals: Angular, React, Ember, Knockout, and Backbone, to name but a few. However, the battle being most closely watched is between Google's Angular and Facebook's React.
Angular, the SPA king until this point, is a full-fledged framework that follows the familiar MVC paradigm. React, the unlikely challenger seems quite odd in comparison with its core library only dealing with the view layer and markup written entirely in JavaScript! While Angular holds the bigger market share, React has caused a seismic shift in how developers think about web application design and has raised the bar on framework size and performance.
Meanwhile, ...
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