Newsletter from 2024.05.22
Angular 18 was released
On May 22nd, 2024, the Angular team released Angular 18. This release is a significant milestone for the Angular community, as it introduces several new features and improvements that make it easier to build high-performance web applications.
What’s in?
- Experimental support for zoneless change detection
- Marking Material 3, deferrable views and the new control flow syntax as stable
- Several SSR improvements, highlight is here integrating event replay which was powering Google Search for years
What’s next?
- The Angular team is heavily working on futher improving the SSR experience. A next milestone will be implementing partial hydration to further improve performance.
- Further improvements on the signals story. New utilities building upon
effect are already announced and will be released in version 19.
- Investigating on redefining router and forms using signals in favor of observables.
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