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Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy

By : Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen, Mateus Carniatto, Jacob Andresen
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Accelerating Angular Development with Ivy

By: Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen, Mateus Carniatto, Jacob Andresen

Overview of this book

Angular Ivy is the latest rendering engine and compiler introduced in Angular. Ivy helps frontend developers to make their Angular applications faster, better optimized, and more robust. This easy-to-follow guide will help you get to grips with the new features of Angular Ivy and show you how to migrate your Angular apps from View Engine to Ivy. You'll begin by learning about the most popular features of Angular Ivy with the help of simple stand-alone examples and realize its capabilities by working on a real-world application project. You'll then discover strategies to improve your developer workflow through new debugging APIs, testing APIs, and configurations that support higher code quality and productive development features. Throughout the book, you'll explore essential components of Angular, such as Angular Component Dev Kit (CDK), Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, and Angular command line interface (CLI). Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of these components along with Angular Ivy which will help you update your Angular applications with modern features. By the end of this Angular Ivy book, you will learn about the core features of Angular Ivy, discover how to migrate your Angular View Engine application, and find out how to set up a high-quality Angular Ivy project.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 1: Discovering New APIs and Language Syntax

As its only officially supported programming language, Angular is tightly coupled with TypeScript. Support for new versions of TypeScript is introduced with major and minor version releases of Angular. In this chapter, we will explore three powerful language features that have been released in the recent versions of TypeScript and Angular:

  • The optional chaining operator (?.)
  • The nullish coalescing operator (??)
  • Native private class members (#)

Through simple examples, we will highlight the strengths of these modern programming language features. We will even learn how two of the new operators work elegantly together in common scenarios. Learning about this new syntax and semantics is key to understanding the examples throughout this book.

Globalization is the process of supporting and adapting multilingual and regional capabilities in an application. Angular Ivy introduces improved globalization APIs. Together...