TodoMVC is great because every framework has to implement the same thing. That lets you see some of the warts of the framework. Skimming over the official Ang

TodoMVC is great because every framework has to implement the same thing. That lets you see some of the warts of the framework. Skimming over the official Angular docs and examples you probably wouldn't guess that ngRoute won't let you use $routeParams if the app doesn't include an ngView. The TodoMVC example makes that obvious, since that's the only reason it splits of part of the page into a separate template. Framework authors and evangelists will naturally show off examples that make the framework look good. People complaining about a framework usually don't understand it well. Implementing a standard task is a great introduction to a framework.