👋Hey fellow Angular Addict
This is the 27th issue of the Angular Addicts Newsletter, a monthly collection of carefully selected Angular resources that got my attention. (Here are the 27th 26th and 25th)
📢Release announcements
📢 What's new in Angular 18.1?
Angular 18.1, the latest minor version of Angular, was released in July. Cédric Exbrayat covers the key new features:
- TypeScript 5.5 support
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@letsyntax -
afterRender/afterNextRenderAPIs -
toSignalequality function -
RouterLinkwithUrlTree - Router
browserUrl - Extended diagnostic for uncalled functions
- Angular CLI: faster builds with
isolatedModules, WASM support,inspectoption, chunk optimizer
💎Angular Gems of July, 2024
📰 Complete Guide for Server-Side Rendering (SSR) in Angular
Alexander Thalhammer explains Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Static Site Generation (SSG), Hydration and Event Replay. He shows how to set these up in an Angular application and offers best practices and tips for improving the user experience.
📰Testing Components In Angular: NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA, Stub Components, and NgMocks
Dany Paredes shows us by examples, how to unit test a component with multiple dependencies like child components or external libraries with the help of the NgMocks mocking library.
📰 The Future of Material Support in Angular
In this post, Mark Thompson and Jeremy Elbourn clarify that Angular Material is not affected by changes to Google's Material Web Components (MWC), as it does not rely on them. Angular Material remains under active development. The team aims to enhance Angular CDK features and documentation to help developers build high-quality user interfaces.
📰Building a Real-Time Chat Application with Angular and Firebase
Moe Mollaie explains, when real-time connections are needed and compares different solutions. He then walks through building a real-time chat application using Angular and a Firebase.
📰Angular: RxJS vs Signals, what to use?
Igor Pak provides two use cases to illustrate when to use Signals and when to use RxJS. His article shows that while Signals are good for state management and simple data updates, they might miss intermediate values in complex scenarios.
👨💻About the author
My name is Gergely Szerovay, I worked as a data scientist and full-stack developer for many years, and I have been working as frontend tech lead, focusing on Angular based frontend development. As part of my role, I'm constantly following how Angular and the frontend development scene in general is evolving. To share my knowledge, I started the Angular Addicts monthly newsletter and publication in 2022, so that I can send you the best resources I come across each month. Whether you are a seasoned Angular Addict or a beginner, I got you covered. Let me know if you would like to be included as a writer. Let’s learn Angular together! Subscribe here 🔥
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🕹️Previous issues
If you missed the previous issues of the newsletter, you can read them here, these are the latest 3 issues:
- Angular Addicts #27: NgRx 18, New RFC: DomRef API, Web storage with Signals & more
- Angular Addicts #26: Angular 18, best practices, recent conference recordings & more
- Angular Addicts #25: Angular and Wiz will be merged, the differences between React and Angular & more
📨 Submit your Angular resource
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