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because you dont want a bloated 300ko massive js file when you are only using the framework core capabilities ... and you dont want to depend on any css/png file either especially when you are not using bootstrap. Remember you need bootstrap js file/ css files/ png file + jQuery to make it work along with angularJS. The goal of Angular is not theming or widgeting HTML/CSS for lazy designers but to extend its semantic.

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angular already ships with external files that extends the core (ie. angular-resource or angular-cookie) so I guess it could be done.

And I'm not sure you need jQuery at all (angular ships with jQLite) so you may be able to use some of the core bootstrap plugins without adding jQuery (untested).

Also with CDN (Google, cdnjs) for common libs, I think it is less an issue today (at least on desktop).

I'm pretty sure you still need all the jquery plugins / css files bundled with bootstrap. This is not a matter of cdn or not this is a matter of bloated libraries that try to do to much things at once. If you want that you can still use ExtJs...

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