Not a flame, but with the changes in angularjs, is still viable to use it, or choose a light library, eg: reactjs? also, for what I saw, laravel is like rails +

Not a flame, but with the changes in angularjs, is still viable to use it, or choose a light library, eg: reactjs? also, for what I saw, laravel is like rails + [ENTER design pattern here]. Is a good choice?