This is funny. After using Angularjs at the recent techcrunch disrupt ny hackathon, I was mulling over writing a post that said Angularjs is not good for hackathons! To be clear, I am a newbie and am very impressed with Angularjs. That said, debugging Angularjs for a newbie is a nightmare. It was very brittle in our experience. Likely, this is because both my hackathon colleague and myself had less than a week's experience with Angularjs. We found that it was easy to find simple examples online, going to an actual app was VERY non-trivial.