Preferred way of doing UI automation for AngularJS applications

What's the recommended or preferred way of doing UI automation for AngularJS applications?

1. Would you use Protractor and cucumber which simulate the browser by calling selenium

2. OR would you use Selenium and TestNG to do your UI automation for AngularJS applications

I am more familiar with Java and not Protractor so I tend to go for Selenium WebDriver but I want to choice the tool that'll satisfy the following:

a. Can easily set up mock data for testing b. can run tests from the command prompt without having to check out the automation code c. Ease of use and maintainability and the testing framework is built in a way that allows any developers to easily write their own tests.

Thanks