Do you mean that since React/JSX kind of a superset of JS you can do higher order stuff in it, whereas in a simple templating language like Jinja2 you can't?
Isn't that a false equivalence? I mean I regularly use patterns similar to HOCs in Angular. It's easy to wrap components[0] and it's just as possible to project components into other components programmatically[1] with complete dynamism.
[0] depending on the use case there are different preferred ways: directives, which have access to the wrapped component and its template, and can interact with it in many ways, or you can do it from raw TS ( https://github.com/abumuawiyah/ng-ivy/blob/master/src/app/ap... see the withTheme and withStyles functions )
[1] for simple things https://blog.angular-university.io/angular-ng-template-ng-co... ... see also the official working example from the docs https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-568wsw?file=src/app/ad.s...
No templating language is going to beat a general purpose programming language as far as features go.
There’s no technical limitation of templated languages that would bar them from having the same functionality as a general purpose language. Whoever is designing the templated language is probably not going to design something as powerful as a general purpose language.
Angular built a specific set of keywords to include higher order components. React did no such thing — they exist for free because it’s all just JS. You could imagine that there are other patterns that exist in JS that you can’t express in Angular because it doesn’t have all of the flexibility of JS.
From your example you showed that you used TS to create your component, essentially using an escape hatch from Angulars templating language to do what you want. You don’t have to escape from React, because you’re already in JS.
I haven’t used Angular in a while, but I have been using Vue recently. The difference is huge. I can’t (easily) put a Vue component in a stack. I have to learn Vues syntax that will have zero transfer when I go to another framework, whereas React is just JavaScript (JSX does change some HTML attributes, but it is generally 1:1).
To close, I don’t think React is required to be productive or write good UI. I just really like it because there’s no magic going on. It’s just syntactic sugar over JS.
