[hardwaresofton]

How so? angular1 does not require you to download anything node-related, for example?

Angular doesn't recommend any tooling, pretty much (just include the framework code and you're off to the races, write some html write some js)...

[qaq]

Angular 2 does :) about the same list as was outlined for Ember

[ef4]

Indeed, and AFAIK angular is even basing their build tooling code on ember-cli.