So far I've spent several weeks of my spare time forensically decomposing the documentation, nearly line by line. It's been very slow going.

The main thing I've learnt is that Angular is elaborate. Each time I get my head around something, I realise that my previous understanding was utterly wrong.

The docs are sufficiently vague that I spend a lot of time looking for secondary sources or just reading the code directly. Sometimes the code is self-documenting. And sometimes it's neutron-star dense.

But what I'm seeing, I really like. I think that directives are a big part of the magic -- building the HTML you wish existed and then writing your app in that domain-specific HTML.