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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)

Initializing asynchronous dependencies

Referring to asynchronous values is toxic because every value computed from the referred value must be asynchronous as well. A couple of techniques to get around this are available, but they both come at the cost of delaying application bootstrapping until the value has been resolved. These techniques are demonstrated in this section.

Providing an asynchronous dependency with a static platform provider

To convert an asynchronous dependency resolver to a static dependency, we can delay bootstrapping our application to provide the static provider at the platform level, making it available as a static dependency in our application.

For example, say we have a JSON file containing an object with Boolean values. We create it in the src/app/assets/features.json file of our application project. This file contains our feature flags, which are loaded at runtime. The settings in this file can be changed after compiling our application.

In the...