Angular News

Major release
New features
Bug fixes

Angular 5

Pentagonal Donut!

Dramatically faster incremental rebuilds
Option to discard whitespaces during build
More versatile decorators

Angular 5

Improved Compiler

Provided by Angular's CLI

Tree shaking

Bundle size reduction

Angular 5

Build Optimization

HttpClient is lightweight and powerful

Response objects are JSON by default

Angular 5

A new HTTP module

Brand new i18n implementation

No more polyfills

Pipes!

Angular 5

Internationalization

Performance improvements

Forms would update onChange

Now have the option to update onBlur or onSubmit

Angular 5

Forms

/* Then */


// Template driven form

<input
    name="firstName"
    ngModel
>



// Reactive form

this.f = new FormControl(
    value,
    [],
    [myValidator]
);

/* Now */


// Template driven form

<input
    name="firstName"
    ngModel
    [ngModelOptions]="{updateOn: 'blur'}"
>


// Reactive form

this.f = new FormControl(
    value, {
        updateOn: 'blur',
        asyncValidators: [myValidator]
    }
);