Angular 18 Launch Party with the Angular Community Meetup

"Join the Angular community as we celebrate the launch of Angular 18, featuring enhancements to DevTools, Signals-based APIs, and more. Learn about the framework's future roadmap and how it's designed to empower developers to build robust web apps."

Key takeaways
  • Angular 18 is released with various new features, including enhanced DevTools support for hydration, support for selecting a rendering mode for a given route, and customizable CDK components.
  • The Angular team has been working on a new reactivity system that will scale to meet the developer experience needs.
  • Signals are a key feature in Angular 18, allowing for declarative creation of stores and signals-based APIs for reusable code and improved type safety.
  • Zones are an option in Angular, but they are being phased out in favor of signals and a new, more scalable reactivity system.
  • Support for server-side rendering and hydration is ongoing, with the goal of making it easier to integrate with other frameworks and libraries.
  • The Angular team is committed to supporting the ecosystem and community, with a focus on making Angular a more open and accessible framework.
  • Angular 18 includes support for NgRx’s Signal Store, which will make it easier to integrate NgRx with Angular.
  • The Angular framework is designed to empower developers to build robust web apps that scale, with a focus on correctness, performance, developer experience, and backwards compatibility.
  • Angular 18 includes new Control Flow features, including support for signals-based APIs and declarative creation of stores.
  • The Angular team is working on a new, more functional approach to reactivity, which will provide a more predictable and scalable experience for developers.
  • Material 3, the next generation of Angular Material, is being developed and will provide a fresh, modern look and feel for the framework.
  • The Angular team is committed to making Angular a framework that is easy to learn and use, with a focus on simplicity and intuitive APIs.