Angular Versioning

What is Angular?

• Angular is developed by Google, It is an open-source front-end framework for creating modern, dynamic web apps.

• Angular is based on JavaScript.(mainly AngularJS)

• Other versions of Angular is based on TypeScript.

• Angular gives you a platform that makes it simple to develop web applications.

• Angular is a combination of declarative templates, end to end tooling, dependency injection, and integrated practices.

Angular Versioning

Angular JS (v1)

• It was released in October 2010

• AngularJS is normally known as Angular 1.x or “Angular.js”

• It is a JavaScript-based front-end web application framework

Angular 2

• It was initially released in September 2016

• It is completely written in Typescript

• ES5, ES6, TypeScript use to write Angular 2 code

Angular 3

• Angular 3 was skipped because of a version mismatch between @angular/compiler, @angular/router libraries, and @angular/core

Angular 4

• Angular 4 was released in March 2017

• Better Bug Fixes Alert

• It provides faster Compilation

• It compatible with TypeScript 2.1 and 2.2

Angular 5

• Angular 5 was released in November 2017

• Build optimizer

• Angular Universal State Transfer API and DOM Support

• Compiler Improvements

• Angular forms add “updateOn” Blur/Submit

• RxJS 5.5 support

Angular 6

• It is released in May 2018

• Two new angular CLI commands added: “ng update” and “ng add”

• Angular Elements

• Component Dev Kit (CDK)

• Angular Material Starter Components

• CLI Workspaces

• Schematics

• Library Support

• Tree Shakable Providers

• Animations Performance Improvements

• RxJS v6

Angular 7

• Angular 7 was released on October 2018

• CLI Prompts

• Bundle budgets in CLI

• Angular Material and CDK (Virtual Scrolling / Drag and Drop)

• Content Projection support in Angular Elements

• Dependency updates: TypeScript 3.1, RxJS 6.3, Added support for Node 10

Angular 8

• It is released in May 2019

• Differential Loading by Default

• Dynamic Imports for Route Configurations

• Builder APIs in CLI

• Workspace APIs in the CLI

• Web Worker Support

• Angular CLI 8.3.0 has added a new UX for an initial app created using ng new

Angular 9

• Angular 9 was initially released on February 7th, 2020

• It supports TypeScript 3.7

• Ivy is the default compiler

• It improves the project's bundle size

• Allow better debugging

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