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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 learned how the enhanced Angular Ivy compiler and runtime make the ahead-of-time Angular compiler a good choice for all phases of development. The tree-shakable, reusable Ivy Instruction Set leaves a smaller bundle for a range of applications.

We discussed how ahead-of-time compilation affects our application builds, component templates, unit tests, and the browser at runtime.

Next, we explored solutions for metadata errors that occur when using the ahead-of-time Angular compiler. Metadata errors that are detected by strict TypeScript and Angular compilation settings were not discussed. Read about strict template type checking in Chapter 2, Boosting Developer Productivity Through Tooling, Configuration, and Convenience.

In the final sections, we learned how to resolve and initialize asynchronous dependencies before bootstrapping our application using two techniques:

  • Providing an asynchronous dependency with a static platform provider
  • ...