Yes, there are people building full-fledged web apps...at least with AngularJS and Backbone. Hubspot uses a lot of Backbone in their products, and they're a lar

Yes, there are people building full-fledged web apps...at least with AngularJS and Backbone. Hubspot uses a lot of Backbone in their products, and they're a large company at this point. Google uses AngularJS...the Youtube app for PS3 is written in Angular, for example. If you find yourself fighting with Angular, it's because you're new to it. Angular is a very rich library...I believe it's definitely possible to do the equivalent of "programming Java in Python" coming from another client library to Angular.