Most, if not all, of the content, patterns, and practices in this book are compatible with Angular 4 and up. Angular 6 is the latest version of Angular, which brings a lot of under-the-cover improvements to the platform and overall stability and cohesion across the ecosystem. The development experience is being vastly improved with additional CLI tools that make it easier to update versions of packages and faster build times to improve your code-build-view feedback cycle. With Angular 6, all platform tools are version synced to 6.0, making it easier to reason about the ecosystem. In the following chart, you can see how this makes it easier to communicate tooling compatibility:
| Previously | With v6 | |
| CLI | 1.7 | 6.0 |
| Angular | 5.2.10 | 6.0 |
| Material | 5.2.4 | 6.0 |
Angular CLI 6.0 comes with major new capabilities, such as ng update and ng add commands; ng...