👋Hey fellow Angular Addict

This is the 15th issue of the Angular Addicts Newsletter, a monthly collection of carefully selected Angular resources that got my attention. (You can read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth issue here.)

📢Release announcements

📢What's new in Angular 16.1?

In his blog post, Cédric Exbrayat summarizes the new features of Angular v16.1:

• TypeScript 5.1 support
• Transform input values
• Fetch backend for the Angular HTTP client
• Angular CLI: --force-esbuild option to force the usage of esbuild for ng serve

📢Announcing TypeScript 5.1

Daniel Rosenwasser highlighted the most interesting new features in his announcement:

• Easier Implicit Returns for undefined-Returning Functions
• Unrelated Types for Getters and Setters
• Decoupled Type-Checking Between JSX Elements and JSX Tag Types
• Namespaced JSX Attributes
• typeRoots Are Consulted In Module Resolution
• Linked Cursors for JSX Tags
• Snippet Completions for @param JSDoc Tags
• Optimizations
• There are also some breaking changes

💬RFCs

💬RFC: Built-In Control Flow

This RFC proposes a new control flow syntax for the Angular HTML templates. It is heavily inspired by Svelte’s control flow, as well as by the Mustache templating language.

Daniel Glejzner explains the proposed transition from the current structural directives (NgIf, NgForOf, NgSwitch) to the new syntax in his article: Angular is getting New Template Syntax.

💬RFC: Deferred Loading

This RFC describes mechanisms that allow lazily loading of the lower priority parts of the UI or the page.

Manfred Steyer's post summarizes both RFCs with examples: Latest Angular RFCs: Control Flow & Deferred Loading.

💎Angular Gems of June, 2023

📰Angular Testing in 2023 - Past, Present, and Future

Angular 16 has deprecated Karma and introduced Jest in experimental mode. These changes raise a lot of questions. Rainer Hahnekamp explains this situation and the current state of testing in Angular.

📰Making Angular Custom Form Components Easier to Work With

Wayne Leung compares the following approaches for creating custom form components:

• Angular's Template driven forms and Reactive forms
• Native script's BaseValueAccessor
• ngspot/ng-superclass: a library for simplifying writing reactive Angular components/directives and custom controls that implement ControlValueAccessor
• Angora Forms: a new custom form component abstraction library

📰The Best Way To Use Signals In Angular Apps

In his article, Christian Lüdemann compares Signals and RxJs, explains the core elements of Signals then builds a Todo app with Signals.

📰Fine-grained Architecture with Nx

Stefan Haas explains how Nx's local cache and Nx Cloud work, then suggests an architecture that aims to create the fastest possible builds.

📅Events and recordings

📅ng-conf 2023

The recordings of some talks of ng-conf 2023 are available on their channel:

• Angular Keynote | Minko Gechev & Jeremy Elbourn
• Superpowers with Signals | Emma Twersky & Alex Rickabaugh
• Faster apps with Angular SSR | Mark Thompson & Jessica Janiuk
• Angular Team Panel Q&A

👨‍💻About the author

My name is Gergely Szerovay, I work as a frontend development chapter lead. Teaching (and learning) Angular is one of my passions. I consume content related to Angular on a daily basis — articles, podcasts, conference talks, you name it.

I created the Angular Addict Newsletter 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.

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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 #14: Angular v16, Signals and SignalStore, fine-grained change detection & more
• Angular Addicts #13: Angular v16, NX v16, SPARTAN & more
• Angular Addicts #12: Signals 🚦, Code organization principles, WebExpo & more

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