Angular 18 introduces several exciting features and improvements. Below are the highlights:
1.?????? Experimental Zoneless Change Detection:
- Historically, Angular relied on a library called zone.js for triggering change detection. However, this library had some downsides in terms of developer experience and performance.
- Angular 18 introduces experimental support for zoneless change detection, which means you can now use Angular without relying on zone.js.
- To try zoneless support, add provideExperimentalZonelessChangeDetection?to your application bootstrap and remove zone.js from the pollyfills in angular.json.
- Benefits of zoneless change detection include improved composability from micro-frontends, faster initial rendering, smaller bundle size, and simpler debugging.
2.?????? Angular.dev
as the New Home for Angular Developers:
- Angular.dev
is now the central hub for angular developers. It provides resources, documentation, and community support.
- Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced Angular developer, Angular.dev
is the place to explore and learn about Angular.
3.?????? Stable Features and Improvements:
- Material 3, deferrable views, and built-in control flow have graduated to stable status. These features come with enhancements and improvements.
- Server-side rendering (SSR) also received upgrades, including i18n hydration support, better debugging, and hydration support in Angular Material.
- Additionally, event replay is now powered by the same library as Google Search.
In addition to these highlights, Angular 18 also brings TypeScript 4.7 support, component-level state management, improved developer tooling, and enhanced Angular Material and CDK.
