What solution are you comparing it to? <a id="clickable-link"> And the putting something like the following into a js file: $('#clickable-link).doSom

What solution are you comparing it to? <a id="clickable-link"> And the putting something like the following into a js file: $('#clickable-link).doSomething() I find the declarative markup of a well-written angular app to be quite clean and easy to read, much more so than the alternatives.