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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 10: Using the Angular Compatibility Compiler

Angular Ivy replaces the previous-generation Angular compiler and rendering runtime known as Angular View Engine. The last version to support the View Engine runtime is Angular version 11.2.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about the bridge between View Engine-compiled Angular packages on npm and your Angular Ivy application, namely the Angular Compatibility Compiler (ngcc).

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introducing the Angular Compatibility Compiler
  • Using the Angular Compatibility Compiler
  • Improving the Angular Compatibility Compiler in your CI/CD workflow

If your Angular Ivy application consumes View Engine-compiled libraries from a package registry, you must use the Angular Compatibility Compiler. After learning about the topics covered in this chapter, you will know what is happening in your local development workflow and be able to fine-tune the Angular Compatibility Compiler in...