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Angular Addicts #15: Angular v16.1, Typescript 5.1, new RFCs & more

My favorite Angular resources of June, 2023

Gergely Szerovay

Jul 25, 2023

👋Hey fellow Angular Addict

This is the 15th 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, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth issue here.)

📢Release announcements

📢What's new in Angular 16.1?

In his blog post, Cédric Exbrayat summarizes the new features of Angular v16.1:

TypeScript 5.1 support
Transform input values
Fetch backend for the Angular HTTP client
Angular CLI: --force-esbuild option to force the usage of esbuild for ng serve

📢Announcing TypeScript 5.1

Daniel Rosenwasser highlighted the most interesting new features in his announcement:

Easier Implicit Returns for undefined-Returning Functions
Unrelated Types for Getters and Setters
Decoupled Type-Checking Between JSX Elements and JSX Tag Types
Namespaced JSX Attributes
typeRoots Are Consulted In Module Resolution
Linked Cursors for JSX Tags
Snippet Completions for @param JSDoc Tags
Optimizations
There are also some breaking changes

💬RFCs

💬RFC: Built-In Control Flow

This RFC proposes a new control flow syntax for the Angular HTML templates. It is heavily inspired by Svelte’s control flow, as well as by the Mustache templating language.

Daniel Glejzner explains the proposed transition from the current structural directives (NgIf, NgForOf, NgSwitch) to the new syntax in his article: Angular is getting New Template Syntax.

💬RFC: Deferred Loading

This RFC describes mechanisms that allow lazily loading of the lower priority parts of the UI or the page.

Manfred Steyer's post summarizes both RFCs with examples: Latest Angular RFCs: Control Flow & Deferred Loading.

💎Angular Gems of June, 2023

📰Angular Testing in 2023 - Past, Present, and Future

Angular 16 has deprecated Karma and introduced Jest in experimental mode. These changes raise a lot of questions. Rainer Hahnekamp explains this situation and the current state of testing in Angular.

📰Making Angular Custom Form Components Easier to Work With

Wayne Leung compares the following approaches for creating custom form components:

Angular's Template driven forms and Reactive forms
Native script's BaseValueAccessor
ngspot/ng-superclass: a library for simplifying writing reactive Angular components/directives and custom controls that implement ControlValueAccessor
Angora Forms: a new custom form component abstraction library

📰The Best Way To Use Signals In Angular Apps

In his article, Christian Lüdemann compares Signals and RxJs, explains the core elements of Signals then builds a Todo app with Signals.

📰Fine-grained Architecture with Nx

Stefan Haas explains how Nx's local cache and Nx Cloud work, then suggests an architecture that aims to create the fastest possible builds.

📅Events and recordings

📅ng-conf 2023

The recordings of some talks of ng-conf 2023 are available on their channel:

👨‍💻About the author

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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