Angular is an open-source web-based application for front-end development and is based on typescript. It allows users to develop reactive SPAs (single-page applications). Angular comes with dependency injection, declarative templates, and end-to-end tools. On the other hand, jQuery is a Java library that comes loaded with various features and functionalities. jQuery is easy to learn and implement, while Angular is relatively tough to understand. Angular supports directives, which are an extension to HTML, along with two-way data binding, MVC architecture and forms validation. jQuery supports cross-browser compatibility, event handling, CSS manipulation, DOM/HTML manipulation and Ajax/JSONP.