Angular 18 marks a major milestone with numerous enhancements and new features designed to improve speed, capabilities, and ease of development for Angular applications. Here are the key updates you need to know about in Angular 18.

• TypeScript 5.4 support
• Defer views (lazy loading of dependencies) moved from developer preview to stable stage
• Route redirects with functions: more flexible and opens up new possibilities in routing management
• New redirect command: enhances redirection capabilities within guards and resolvers
• Zone-less change detection: change detection operates independently without intermediaries like zone.js
• Template local variable with @let block
• Core improvements: ongoing efforts to refine change detection, rendering, and dependency injection
• Enhanced Angular DevTools: various enhancements to debugging tools for simplifying the debugging process
• Improved forms API: several upgrades to streamline form creation and validation
• Upgraded in-template API: simplifies template creation and utilization
• Support for web components
• Enhanced internationalization capabilities
• Introduction of a new router API