[carsongross]

I've been working on an Angular alternative called IntercoolerJS:

http://intercoolerjs.org/

The idea is to keep a lot of the advantages of the traditional web development model, but, via HTML5-style attributes, RESTful URL design and partial driven UX, achieve a better UX.

It's not for everyone or for every problem, and it is still in pre-alpha (we are going to change from a preamble to HTTP headers for meta-directives, for example) but, if you find Angular too heavy-weight and foreign for your UI, it might be of interest.

Please contact me if you are interested in contributing.

[srgpqt]

I think this method is the way forward for most document based sites/apps. Last year I built something similar to intercooler (nice lib btw) for our product to great success. Makes things so much simpler to develop and maintain.

[carsongross]

Thanks man. Please, clone. I barely have any idea what I'm doing. ;)

[mh-]

This approach looks very promising; I agree with the other reply that this is the way forward. Best of luck.