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Migrate AngularJS to React — automatically

AngularJS 1.x has been officially unsupported since 2022, and every year on it adds security exposure and hiring pain. But its two-way binding, $scope inheritance, and directive lifecycle make manual migration notoriously treacherous — behavior hides in digest-cycle ordering.

CodeShift converts AngularJS applications to React 18 + TypeScript automatically. The engine maps modules, controllers, services, and directives, then rewrites them as function components with hooks and a predictable unidirectional data flow. Services become typed modules, directives become components, and $scope state becomes explicit props and state. Each file is verified for behavior parity and repaired automatically if verification fails.

Target stack: React 18 + TypeScript + Vite

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What actually gets modernized

Controllers + $scope

Function components & hooks

Two-way binding

Unidirectional data flow

Custom directives

Reusable typed components

$http / $q services

fetch + async/await modules

Digest-cycle updates

React's predictable rendering

ng-* template logic

Plain JSX and TypeScript

How the migration engine works

1

Analyze

The whole repository is scanned: framework and version detected, every dependency mapped, risks flagged before a line is touched.

2

Plan

A dependency-aware migration plan orders files leaves-first, so everything a file imports is migrated before the file itself.

3

Rewrite

Each file is restructured into modern, idiomatic architecture — streamed live, with already-migrated symbols kept consistent across files.

4

Verify

Every file passes structural checks and an adversarial behavior-parity review; failures are repaired automatically before you see them.

AngularJS to React: frequently asked questions

Why migrate off AngularJS now?+

AngularJS reached end-of-life in January 2022 — no security patches, shrinking plugin ecosystem, and increasingly hard hiring. Every year of delay raises both the risk and the eventual migration cost.

Can AngularJS directives be converted to React components?+

Yes. CodeShift analyzes each directive's template, scope bindings, and link/controller logic and rewrites it as a typed React component with equivalent behavior, verified against the original.

What happens to $scope and two-way binding?+

Implicit $scope state becomes explicit React state and props with unidirectional flow. The engine traces where each scope value is read and written so nothing silently disappears in the rewrite.

Do I have to migrate everything at once?+

No — you choose the scope of each run. Many teams migrate a feature area at a time; the dependency-aware ordering keeps each batch internally consistent.

Other supported migrations

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