I really enjoyed Flex and look back at it fondly, when I tried Angular 1 it felt like the first thing on the JS/HTML side that could come close to matching the

I really enjoyed Flex and look back at it fondly, when I tried Angular 1 it felt like the first thing on the JS/HTML side that could come close to matching the productivity of Flex (albeit with no helpful IDE). It was good enough to whip out a MVP demo in 48 hours. I've mostly been out of UI development since, occasionally extending stuff written in a NIH corporate framework or some Backbone things. Occasional experiments with the ClojureScript tooling (Reagent-based) seem like the next way forward that maybe the rest of the world can use in another 5+ years.