No, Out of the box Angular doesn't work with Virtual DOM

Websockets, since you're using NodeJS, use socket.io library for that

for a SPA I would recommend AngularJS

finally

I think it doesn't metter what JS framework you would use with laravel, Laravel is a Php framework that you use to make your backend independa tly from the frontend js framework, it really depends on your needs and your choice

Tutorials: http://www.gajotres.net/ http://www.joshmorony.com/ https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/ Resources: http://mcgivery.com/100-ionic-framework-resources/ https://gist.github.com/IamAdamJowett/21b1ce0993b5b695b5d8 https://github.com/Alexintosh/Awesome-Ionic https://github.com/lanceli/awesome-ionic

I know that, but which one would you use to make you app

It really depends on the project that you are working on, for a full SPA, I would go for AngularJS 2.