Unleashing the power of Angular: Navigating the latest releases and transformations by Loïc Magnette

Angular now supports signals for state management, providing better performance and more explicit reactivity compared to traditional change detection

New control flow syntax (@if, @for, @switch) replaces ng-if/ng-for directives, offering cleaner and more readable template syntax

@defer lets you lazy load components and content, improving initial load performance with options for loading states and error handling

Input signals, output signals, and signal-based components provide a new way to handle component communication and state management

Zone.js is becoming optional with experimental zoneless mode in Angular 18+, aiming for better performance

Angular 19 will introduce migration schematics to help convert existing code to use signals

Signals are synchronous and meant for component state, while Observables remain the tool for async operations

Computed signals allow deriving new values from other signals with automatic updates

Effects let you perform side effects when signals change, but require careful handling to avoid infinite loops

Documentation has moved to angular.dev with interactive playground for trying new features