Month: May 2025

In the 3-2-1 format of the newsletter, I’m posting a few essential articles to revisit, updates to know about, and one question to ponder:

Three updates worth knowing about:

• Angular 20 is officially available! You can watch this video from Google/IO about what’s new in Angular and tune in at 9 am US/Pacific tomorrow on the Angular team’s YouTube channel for a live launch event.
• With Angular 20 comes a new style guide with different naming conventions and a new set of best practices. I’ll cover those in more detail in future newsletters, but the style guide is worth taking a look at now that it has been officially released.
• Next week, FrontEnd Nation will have a track on Angular with a v20 talk by Minko Gechev. I’ll be speaking about resources, the most game-changing API in Angular since the launch of Signals. The event is free to attend; all you have to do is register and tune in.

Two short articles to revisit:

• A common anti-pattern in Angular applications: RxJs Subscription within another subscription.
• Since the previous article focused on RxJS, let’s also mention this brief post on the TapObserver interface.

One question to ponder:

• You’ve probably heard about “Zoneless” Angular, but do you know what that means? I you don’t, please reply to that email and I’ll cover that topic in a next edition of this newsletter.

I’m writing this post from Google I/O, the annual conference where Google announces updates about all its products and services. This year, AI was everywhere and dominated most sessions, yet we received a good update from the Angular team about what to expect for Angular 20 and later this year:

First, a few confirmed items for Angular v20:

• linkedSignal becomes stable, graduating from developer preview
• Zoneless Angular will be available in developer preview
• Vitest support for unit tests as an experiment
• Angular custom track in Google Chrome performance dev tools tab for Angular-specific insights on performance
• SSR: Event replay is enabled by default
• A list of new AI resources for Angular: https://angular.dev/ai
• Angular 20’s official launch event is on May 29th at 9 am US/Pacific.

Signal Forms are a work in progress, with a first prototype branch here, but nothing’s fully working yet, so take a look only if you’re curious about what the future of Angular forms could look like.

What else about Google I/O?

If you’re curious about what was announced at Google I/O, I’d recommend this 10-minute short recap video.

Generative AI is improving super quickly, and I was able to generate this 8-second video from a single picture taken with my phone – none of the movement you see in here actually happened, it was all AI-generated using Veo 3, the latest AI engine for video generation from Google. Some of the video examples are truly impressive.