If you're worried about page size then note that I'm not using jQuery or anything besides Angular and Angular is only like 76KB. If I removed Angular and put in jQuery and a few plugins then I'd be at roughly that same number, and I'd need more custom code to go with it. So why not use Angular?

Or, if you're just wondering why this is worthy of the HN frontpage, then I can't answer that. :)

I don't mind page size either, everything I've ever written has started out including jquery. Anyone that argues that jquery is too big doesn't have a clue what they are talking about (CDN's/Cache etc)

Having written dozens of web apps that use mustache, I totally get why you like client side templates (json+mustache is completely awesome), bootstrap is awesome.

My point was that with bootstrap, json, gdata, mustache etc the features you mention are all straightforward, no Angular required. Nothing wrong with AngularJS. No disrespect intended. I was just saying that I could have put that together with the technologies I mentioned very easily and quickly with all those features.

I liked it though, I wasn't trying to put down what you've done.

Thanks! No worries!

> My point was that with bootstrap, json, gdata, mustache etc the features you mention are all straightforward, no Angular required.

Sure, but I could just as easily turn that around and say with angular, all these features are fairly straightforward, no jquery or bootstrap or mustache requred, right? Why is one better than the other? Or if they're not, why bring it up (serious question)?