Am I missing something? Angular contains its own "jQuery Lite", and appears to be about 30kb gzipped.
Still, it's neat that no additional JS is required.
Still, it's neat that no additional JS is required.
This is over 13x less as compared to full jQuery (1.9.x): http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/jquery-size
so at the end of the day this might be a substantial difference.