Maxim Salnikov

Angular GDE

The Status of Angular

What is the status of Angular ecosystem

And what's new in the latest release

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

  • Angular Oslo meetup organizer

  • ngVikings conference founder

  • ngCommunity initiative starter

  • Google Dev Expert in Angular

Developer Engagement Lead at Microsoft

Build with Angular[JS] since v1.1.4

Angular

In
Numbers

State of JS / Usage

https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-frameworks/

State of JS / Interest

https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-frameworks/

StackOverflow / Questions

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/11/13/cliffs-insanity-dramatic-shifts-technologies-stack-overflow/​

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=angularjs%2Cangular%2Creactjs%2Cvue.js

262K

StackOverflow / Survey

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-webframe-want​

Most wanted frameworks

StackOverflow / Survey

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-webframe-prof​

Most popular frameworks (pro devs)

Angular

And
Community

Angular -> Community

1.4M

2M+

2M+

weekly downloads

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/cli

https://github.com/angular/angular/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS00NTE2NDYyMzQ%3D

Community -> Angular

Feedback

Core dev

Ecosystem

How

To
Contribute

Review the documentation

https://angular.io/guide/contributors-guide-overview

Submit a   feature   request

https://github.com/angular/angular/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afeature

5.5K -> 0.7K

open issues

...or 👍 for a   feature   you like

https://blog.angular.io/new-feature-request-process-a9f69d106fc8

...or implement it!

https://twitter.com/angular/status/1456308511302950916​

What's

New

Latest release

v13

Version updates

Deprecations

Feature drops

New tooling

Bugfixes

Removals

!

https://github.com/angular/angular/releases/tag/13.0.0
 

Removals in v13

IE11

Improving developer experience

Keeping up with the Web Standards

https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/41840

View Engine

https://blog.angular.io/upcoming-improvements-to-angular-library-distribution-76c02f782aa4

DX improvements

Better APIs

Fresher and fuller docs

Newer lib versions

More automations

  • NGSW, Components, Forms

  • i18n guide, $localization

  • TypeScript 4.4, RxJS 7.4

  • In Angular Language Service

https://blog.angular.io/angular-v13-is-now-available-cce66f7bc296

Performance improvements

  • Coding time

  • Run time

  • Build time

https://twitter.com/AlisaDuncan/status/1456293065988128768

How to update?

https://update.angular.io/?v=12.0-13.0

ng update @angular/core@13 @angular/cli@13
ng update @angular/material@13

Persistent build cache

up to 68% faster

{
 "cli": { 
  "cache": { 
   "enabled": true, 
   "path": ".angular/cache", 
   "environment": "all"
  } 
 }
}

angular.json

https://angular.io/cli/cache

Better forms

  • Enable/disable validators dynamically

  • Stricter typed form statuses

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWuBE-oo5WLtwkLFxbNTiaVQGNk8ipgbekZcKBeyxxo/​

export type FormControlStatus = 'VALID'|'INVALID'|'PENDING'|'DISABLED';

Accessibility improvements

https://blog.angular.io/improving-angular-components-accessibility-89b8ae904952

  • Optimized high contrast mode

  • Increased touch target sizes

  • Misc. focus-related improvements

  • Multiple ARIA additions (incl. "role")

  • Both for "classic" and MDC-based components

More improvements

Angular Service Worker

Dynamic components

Router

Tests

Angular Package Format

https://dsebastien.medium.com/angular-13-in-depth-83be8f979e26​

  • More ergonomic API

  • Simpler API for creation

  • Richer API incl. cancelled nav

  • Automatic cleanup with TestBed

  • Modernized and streamlined

What's

Next

Roadmap

https://angular.io/guide/roadmap

Strongly typed forms

Switch Angular Components to MDC Web

Standalone components, directives and pipes

My top 3 most wanted updates

Summary

  • Angular is here to stay

  • Angular ❤️ Community

  • Contributions are welcome

  • V13 is awesome - update today...

aka.ms/angular-deploy

...and host it for free in the cloud

Thank you!

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

Questions?

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

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