I know we use Angular with RequireJS in a few of our apps. We require in all of our libraries (jQuery, Bootstrap and Angular) before creating the application mo

I know we use Angular with RequireJS in a few of our apps. We require in all of our libraries (jQuery, Bootstrap and Angular) before creating the application module. We haven't found speed to be a problem yet. We used to use CanJS, and I can tell you that handling the same amount of data, Angular is faster, even with fairly complicated filters in place. I do agree that Angular requires you to let go of the "jQuery way" of approaching DOM manipulation, which throws jQuery-coders for a loop. It's a downside not to be able to plop in a jQuery plugin. Then again, considering some of the plugins I've encountered, that might not be a complete loss. Also, the Angular-UI team is doing a heck of a job of replicating the most common plugins as Angular native directives.