Redux is a paradigm for handling data flow / application state in an application, whilst Angular is the framework running the application. They're not mutually

Redux is a paradigm for handling data flow / application state in an application, whilst Angular is the framework running the application. They're not mutually exclusive :) Without using something like Redux, you can get by just fine for small apps (and arguably it could be more of a hindrance and over-complication than a help), but for anything more serious it can help a lot.