nope you still need to register custom events one way or another, especially when using third party plugins or scripts in directives. You cant magically hookup

nope you still need to register custom events one way or another, especially when using third party plugins or scripts in directives. You cant magically hookup a 3rd party widget in angular , you need to write event callbacks. Angulars has it's own (scripted) event loop on the top of the DOM event loop. this comes with a huge performance cost no ones wants to acknowledge.