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Is there anyway to bet a brunch / angular skeleton to maybe a 7, close to something like meteor without being tied down to their ecosystem?

I dunno man, this is my highly-subjective-rating-scale ;)

I think Derby and SocketStream might sit at the 7-8 spot.

You're right the html attribute approach goes with angularjs (source: http://blog.derbyjs.com/2012/04/14/our-take-on-derby-vs-mete...).