Any particular reason you dislike Angular? Have to say since I've been building with angular, I try and avoid jquery and any direct dom references completely. Think angular is fantastic.
I think AngularJS is too much effort to build the simplest things. I don't even see the benefit at all. I build all of my javascript apps (I hate using the word front-end apps) using jQuery and Flask backend. I don't even use asynchronous . I just don't see the point.
What's missing from jQuery that limits you but does not in AngularJS?
What's missing from Flask that limits you but does not in Node.js?
What's missing from jQuery that limits you but does not in AngularJS?
What's missing from Flask that limits you but does not in Node.js?