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.

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 (or four) Angular updates to know about:

• The Angular team started teasing its new “selector-less” RFC with some examples of what this could look like. The goal is to get rid of component and directive selectors (and hopefully extra imports) and this could be available as an experiment as soon as Angular v20:
  

• We now have a date and location for ng-conf 2025: October 17-18 in Baltimore, USA. The event is moving closer to Europe and will be preceded by JSConf North America at the same venue on October 14-16.
• All videos from FrontEnd Nation Angular Day are now available on this Youtube playlist.
• You can already register for free for the next FrontendNation Event (3-5 June) at https://frontendnation.com/

Two articles to revisit:

• None this week, lots of videos to watch in the previous section!

One little thing to ponder:

• Did you know that instead of using [class]=" isImportant ? 'highlight' : ' ' " you can do [class.highlight] ="isImportant" in your templates?

This week, we’re back to using 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 short articles to revisit:

• Do you know there are several types of RxJs subjects? And when to use each kind? I cover 3 of them in this article.
• This tutorial is about a 4th type of Subject: WebSocketSubject for web socket connections.
• Finally, a trick to emit Observable data directly into a Subject.

Two Angular updates:

• ng-conf will be back this fall in the US! That is great news. On top of that, Angular Connect will be back in London, UK on September 13th 2025. Tickets are already available!

• Next week on March 27th, we’ll be running Frontend Nation Angular Day with Minko Gechev, Sarah Drasner, and more GDEs and Angular team members! It’s a free, online event. Save the date now and register here.

One question to think about:

• Did you know that the Angular dev tools display current Signal values? Makes it super easy to debug Angular code without breakpoints!

This week, we’re back to using 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 short articles to revisit:

• You probably know about lazy-loading, but have you considered using the @defer block with its prefetching and different trigger options? These features give you a lot more control over lazy-loading and don’t rely on routing at all.

Two Angular updates:

• Angular 19.2 is available! It comes with quite a few interesting experimental features, such as a new httpResource (the signal-based alternative to HttpClient), a defaultValue option for resources, the ability to use JavaScript template strings in Angular templates, as well a new CLI migration to use self-closing tags: ⁠ng generate @angular/core:self-closing-tag

• On March 27th, we’ll be running Frontend Nation Angular Day with Minko Gechev, Sarah Drasner, and Jessica Janiuk from the Angular team! It’s a free, online event. Save the date now and register here.
  
  

One question to think about:

• Have you tried the resource API? It’s promising, and the Angular team is considering it as the solution for reactivity with Signals and without RxJs. Check out my quick tutorial here.

As usual, we’re using the 3-2-1 format of the newsletter this week. I’m posting a few essential articles to revisit, updates to know about, and one question to ponder:

Three articles to revisit:

• CSS animations can be tricky as the language constantly evolves with new features and new ways to do what could be done before with various CSS tricks and/or JavaScript. Here is a tool that helps you discover and configure CSS animations for your app, while this tutorial showcases how to animate route transitions with Angular.
• Finally, I wanted to remind you that this Angular template syntax trick can replace ngClass in most scenarios.

Two Angular updates:

• Angular 19.2 just got its first RC version, and it features a new httpResource, which aims to replace the HttpClient with a Signal-based approach. Manfred Steyer published a preview of the feature here.
• The FREE Angular Weekend is happening this weekend at certificates.dev! A great way to get free certification training and take practice tests to see how you’d fare in the Angular mid-level certification exam.

One question to think about:

• Do you still use jQuery or lodash with Angular? Most features of these libraries are now either natively supported (such as object copy) or have Angular alternatives, such as queries and template reference variables.