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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we first discussed how the Angular Compatibility Compiler is a tool needed in the transition phase while Angular library packages are still compiled using the Angular View Engine compiler. The Angular Compatibility Compiler compiles these package bundles into the Angular Ivy format so that they can be used by our Angular Ivy applications.

Additionally, we discussed how recent versions of Angular support partially Ivy-compiled Angular library packages using the Angular Linker, which eventually fully replaces the Angular Compatibility Compiler.

After reviewing the use cases that rely on the Angular Compatibility Compiler, we briefly discussed the most useful options for the ngcc command-line tool. Following that, we walked through common optimization techniques using these options.

Finally, this chapter ended by considering how the Angular Compatibility Compiler can be optimized for speed in CI/CD workflows. We discussed solutions for several specific...