Saying Angular is bad is nonsense, like saying .Net is bad... it has strengths and weaknesses, pretty much like any other technology in the world. It gets things done and has a huge support community, producing valuable libraries to quickly add great features to your web app, which, as far as I experienced personally integrate seamlessly within the workflow... With all the web developers out there, if Angular was so bad, I would be surprising that it is that popular! Talking about frameworks, React and Flux is another path to investigate: http://adndevblog.typepad.com/cloud_and_mobile/2015/04/first-steps-with-react-flux.html