There's not much sense in using it on non-Angular projects, as all it adds to Webdriver is stuff to work with Angular's digest cycle. Regular Webdriver should work just fine for writing tests in code as well, and you can use webdriver-manager [1] or selenium-standalone [2] to install Selenium and keep the drivers up-to-date.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/webdriver-manager [2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-standalone