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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 discussed the Angular update process, including the Angular Update Guide, the ng update command, and managing Angular's third-party dependencies.

We learned how to review certain important automated Angular Ivy migrations by going through simple code examples.

Finally, we considered several optional migrations, both automated and manual Angular Ivy migrations. We learned how to fine-tune the Angular router's initial navigation based on our application platform.

After that, we discussed two undocumented configuration settings for NgZone that optimize change detection by coalescing multiple requested change detection cycles into one for certain native events and use cases.

The final manual migration we discussed improves type safety in our unit tests by using the strongly typed static TestBed.inject method instead of the deprecated static TestBed.get method.

In the next chapter, we will explore the impact and limitations of the Angular...