ng-conf 2017 Recap

Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/ngconfvideos

Slides https://github.com/angular-pakistan/ng-conf-2017

https://ratwerks.tech/#/blog/viewpost/best-of-ng-conf

1.x   ⇨   AngularJS

>= 2.x   ⇨   Angular

Angular as a platform

• @angular/core, @angular/router, …
• CLI
• Style guide
• Language service
• Specification for building modules and libraries
• Material component dev kit
• Standard release schedule

v4

• AOT improvements to reduce generated code, up to 60% smaller in most cases
• Separate package for animations
• Improved *ngIf and *ngFor
• Community-built Angular Universal adopted by the Angular team: @angular/platform-server
• TypeScript 2.2 compatibility

Improved *ngIf and *ngFor syntax

  <div *ngIf="userList | async as users; else loading">
    <user-profile *ngFor="let user of users; count as count; index as i" [user]="user">
      User {{i}} of {{count}}
    </user-profile>
  </div>
  <ng-template #loading>Loading...</ng-template>
  

v5

• Simplicity: make AoT the default. Single compilation process for dev and production.
• Speed and size: compiler improvements, including better tree shaking.

CLI

• 1.0
• ng eject

CLI: looking forward

• SDK

Other Stuff

Officially supported language internally at Google

Release schedule

Semantic versioning

Time-based release cycles

• Patch release every week
• About three minor releases every six months
• Major release every six months

Long Term Support (LTS), beginning with v4

Angular Material

Component Dev Kit