➕ Angular Signals in developer preview 🚦
➕ Developer preview of opt-in non-destructive hydration 💧
➕ Improved Standalone APIs 🧍 ♀️
➕ Tooling enhancements 🧰
You can get all this and more with `ng update`! 🚀
1️⃣ Angular Signals 🚦 bring fine-grained reactivity to developer preview in v16!
- entirely backward compatible and interoperable
- better run-time performance
- a simpler mental model for reactivity
Learn more in our developer guides: https://angular.io/guide/signals
2️⃣ Developer preview of full app non-destructive hydration 💧
Angular now looks up existing DOM nodes while building internal data structures & attaches event listeners, instead of re-rendering!
Early tests saw a 45% Largest Contentful Paint improvement!
3️⃣ Migrate to standalone APIs with new schematics and a migration guide. 🧍 ♀️
Once you’re in your project directory run:
`ng generate @angular/core:standalone`
Learn more here: https://angular.io/guide/standalone-migration
4️⃣ v16 brings our new esbuild-based build system to developer preview!
Early tests showed a 72% improvement in speed over cold production builds!
Learn more: https://angular.io/guide/esbuild