If the angular team sticks to their promise, we should expect a RC(Release Candidate) in April 2019, somewhere this month, and may 2019 should contain the general release of angular 8!
What can we expect?
Web workers!
Ever thought about loading a big json file or maybe you wanted to filter in a big list? All of this without blocking the UI…Web workers will handle all of this on a separate thread. Angular is adding bundle support for web workers in their CLI.
Ivy preview
You’ll be able to enable ivy with a option, the reason they did not go full ivy yet is to gather feedback so the angular team can incorporate necessary changes and improvements into the full release.
Some of the important things that ivy will bring to angular:
- Faster build times
- Code will be easier to read at runtime
- improved template checking
You can take a look at this firebase app for a status update on ivy:
Opt-in telemetry
With your opt-in consent, Angular will be collecting anonymous information to improve the framework.
…and many more
Bazel support is getting better everyday, latest update in march can be found here: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/19058#issuecomment-478506712
There’s a bright future for angular and luckily “we” the developers are part of this future!
Hopefully this provided some insight to people using Angular, and as always,
Happy coding!
