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- AngularJS is a tool for building complex single-page web applications, not brochureware. - If you're building complex SPAs, you're going to require a decent level of tooling. - If you have a decent level of tooling, the points in this article are meaningless.

As an aside, ngMin is the most trivial thing in the world to set up, and if you can't figure it out, array notation is slightly painful but well worth it for all of the tools Angular provides.