NG: Angular versions and features list

NG: Angular versions and features list

  October 25, 2020    Vinod Kumar

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Hope everyone is doing good, here we will look into the angular versions and its features at one glance. I hope it will be useful when you want to recap your angular skills for any interview preparation.

Please add any points in the comments section, if I have missed any.

Version 2:

• Complete rewrite from A1
• Es6 and Typescript support
• Component-based
• support for mobile devices

Version 4:

• Core library changes
• Performance improvement - AOT compiler
• Typescript compatible
• Else added to ngIf directive
• Animation separated from core library.

Version 5:

• Compiler improvements
• Build optimizer
• Angular universal state transfer API and DOM support
• Preserve whitespace
• ExportAs for component/directive
• The new HTTP client module
• Few new router life cycle events

Version 6:

• Angular Elements
• Service worker - bug fixes
• <template> removed
• i18n
• ngModelChanges - Forms
• EleRef more strict <any>
• Bazel Compiler
• Rxjs 6.0
• TreeShaking - ProvideIn
• Angular Material CDK
• Webpack 4 in CLI

Version 7:

• Drag and Drop
• Virtual Scrolling
• CLI prompts
• Bundle Budget
• Application performance (Removed polyfills)
• Error handling
• Angular compiler (8 phase AOT)
• ngDoBootstrap (interface)
• NS.Schematics

Version 8:

• Differential loading
• Dynamic imports
• Ivy rendering
• Bazel support
• viewchild-static
• web worker -CLI
• Analytics -CLI

Version 9:

• Default Ivy Engine
• Improvement in bundle sizes
• Improved type checking
• faster testing
• AOT compiler on by default
• New options for "provideIn"
• Typescript 3.7 support
• better debugging
• Improvements to differential loading
• Improved css class and style binding

Version 10 Rc has been released, will update the features once the major version is released, keep looking for the updates.