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We're about to venture into building a brand new SAAS application that needs to have a great looking and sophisticated front end.

The UI is meant to be single-page, built on top of Web API and using Typescript. Backend is in ASP.NET/MVC. UI will be heavy on charts/graphs/reports/dashboards as well as data/entry of parameters. Dashboards need to be "live", but all other data can be refreshed on screens manually, no need to live-push it.

Goals for the framework revolve around the following criteria:

1) Ability to acceptance-test UI data layer without Selenium (ie: json only, don't want to maintain tests at the brittle HTML layer)

2) Ability to work with Typescript

3) Great tooling with respect to Visual Studio

4) Easy to work with, understand, and catch issues/errors.

5) Html5 and responsive design are very important

Appreciate any advice or follow up questions

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1) I think angularjs is a great option. There are some great testing libraries like jasmine

2) Although it is possible to use typescript with angular, http://www.piotrwalat.net/using-typescript-with-angularjs-and-web-api/ I'd recommend finding a pure angular developer.

3) Resharper works with angular but jetbrains also makes a great ide called webstorm that has even better tooling for angular. Both have live dev updates in browser, but I think webstorm is a little more reliable when coding and testing at the same time.

4) The great part about angular is that there are lots of ng modules to work with from a growing community. There are some great videos on egghead.io

5)As far as responsive design, that comes from a css framework such as Zurb Foundation or Twitter bootstrap. I prefer Foundation, but there is already a angular/bootstrap http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/

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