Angular Addicts #13: Angular v16, NX v16, SPARTAN & more
My favorite Angular resources of April, 2023
👋Hey fellow Angular Addict
This is the 13th issue of the Angular Addicts Newsletter, a monthly collection of carefully selected Angular resources that got my attention. (You can read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth issue here.)
📢Release announcements
📢Angular v16 is now available!
The latest version of Angular has been released last week. Minko Gechev summarizes the most important new features in his release announcement.
I listed out the most important changes and new features, also shared resources that will teach you how these new Angular features work, read my article ‘Master Angular 16‘.
The biggest highlights of this version are:
Signals
DestroyRef
andtakeUntilDestroyed
Required inputs
Bind Router information to component inputs
Node.js v14 support has been removed
TypeScript 5.0 Support
Angular Compatibility Compiler (ngcc) has been removed
Server Side Rendering: Non-destructive hydration + now the results of a request done on the server side can be reused on the client side
Strict type checking for
ngTemplateOutlet
provideServiceWorker
function to register service workers in standalone applicationsExperimental Jest support
Vite + Esbuild based dev server.
📢Nx v16 is here!
Nx v16 is here. Zack DeRose helps us explore the new features:
Simpler presets for React, Angular, and Node starter apps
Vite and Vitest support for integrated Nx monorepos
Official Deno plugin
Support for non-npm workspaces to support workspaces focused on other languages like C#, Java, and Kotlin
We have decoupled the Nx version from Angular versions allowing you to update Nx without updating Angular
💎Angular Gems of April, 2023
📰Join the Angular v16/17 Development: — Discover How to Collaborate with the Angular Team!
Daniel Glejzner wrote an article about how the Angular team uses RFCs to discuss upcoming changes and how community contributors can collaborate with the Angular team.
📰Angular: The Framework of Past, Present, and Future
Santosh Yadav’s post summarizes the history and development of the Angular frontend framework from the AngularJS times to the latest features. He covers the past, the present and the future of build tools, rendering engines, reactivity and change detection.
📰Supabase And Angular: A Powerful Combination For Building Web Applications
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative based on PostgreSQL. Christian Lüdemann showcases us how to create a to-do app with a Supabase backend and Angular frontend: he sets up a Supabase account, creates the database, builds the Angular app and explains how a production Supabase setup works.
📰SPARTAN. Type-safe Angular full-stack development powered by Analog
In his step-by-step tutorial, Robin Goetz creates a simple application using the SPARTAN tech stack. SPARTAN consists of Supabase, Prisma, Analog, tRPC, Tailwind, Angular, and Nx.
📰Lazy loading services in Angular. What?! Yes, we can.
In his article, Enea Jahollari shows us how to use the dynamic import syntax and injectable decorators for lazy loading service instances.
📅Events and recordings
📅WebExpo 2023
WebExpo is one of my favorite conferences, and Angular Addicts is a community partner of the event.
WebExpo is the largest conference in Central Europe for anyone whose business relates to the internet and who’d want to keep up-to-date.
They shared the recordings of the presentations on SlidesLive.
I summarized my favorite moments here.
📅Angular Tiny Conf 2023
Angular Tiny Conf shared its 12 hour recording on YouTube.
📅NG-BE 2023
NG-BE is a 2-day event in Ghent, Belgium, that brings together Angular developers and experts from all over the world to share ideas, news and opinions about Angular.
The recordings of NG-BE 2023 are available on this playlist.
💬 Tweets
Here is a collection of my favorite tweets from April, 2023:
Younes: #Angular 16 should be code-named Angular 3 🙃
Brecht Billiet: I never understood why people found #Angular hard. It forces us to code in an opinionated way.
🤔Typescript basics can be learned in a day.
🤔Modules are optional and where just config objects
🤔CLI fixes all config
🤔DI can be learned in a few hours
🤔#RxJS.. yes I get that 😅
🙋♂️Who is behind Angular Addicts?
My name is Gergely Szerovay, I work as a frontend development chapter lead. Teaching (and learning) Angular is one of my passions. I consume content related to Angular on a daily basis — articles, podcasts, conference talks, you name it.
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🕹️Previous issues
If you missed the previous issues of the newsletter, you can read them here, these are the latest 3 issues:
Angular Addicts #12: Signals 🚦, Code organization principles, WebExpo & more
Angular Addicts #10: New features in Angular 15.1, Unit testing tips, Tutorials & more
📨 Submit your Angular resource
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