Angular Addicts #28: Angular 18.1 (w. the new @let syntax), Component testing, SSR guide & more

👋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
@let syntax
afterRender / afterNextRender APIs
toSignal equality function
RouterLink with UrlTree
Router browserUrl
Extended diagnostic for uncalled functions
Angular CLI: faster builds with isolatedModules, WASM support, inspect option, 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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