I recently came to a similar opinion[1] of Angular like both of you though I was evaluating AgnularDart. I decided to stick with plain Dart mostly of the reaso

I recently came to a similar opinion[1] of Angular like both of you though I was evaluating AgnularDart. I decided to stick with plain Dart mostly of the reasons you mentioned (JavaScript ecosystem feeling like a mess). Polymer does look great but feels a bit unstable (at least for Dart). What I would really love to see is a simple front-end framework handling: - routing - view encapsulation - basic animations (when views are altered/loaded) - back-end requests - preferably swap-in-out (http, websockets) I ended up basically doing the above by hand in plain Dart. The only part that I found ready made and working nicely so far is the routing part[2] from Angular. [1] - http://homing-on-code.blogspot.com/2014/11/dart-one-year-later-angulardart-one.html http://homing-on-code.blogspot.com/2014/11/dart-one-year-lat... [2] - https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/route_hierarchical https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/route_hierarchical