Angular Documentation Tricks

If you use Angular, you’re most likely familiar with the Angular website: https://angular.io.

But did you know that you access the documentation of a previous framework version by using the version number as a prefix, such as https://v14.angular.io?

Even better, you can get a glimpse of the future with https://next.angular.io or take a look at the current Release Candidate version: https://rc.angular.io.

Also, the header of the website has a different color whenever you’re not on the current version:

The red header is for the next version of Angular, the grey is for a past version, orange is for an RC, and blue is for the current one.

Sometimes though, the documentation does not answer all the questions we have, in which case we are just one click away from accessing the source code of any feature:

I used those tricks over and over again to prepare my course on Angular Signals. That’s how I could get a glimpse of the future and prepare several newsletter issues before the release of Angular 16.

Alain Chautard

Alain is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Angular, and Google Maps. His daily mission is to help development teams adopt Angular and build at scale with the framework. He has taught Angular on all six continents! A world traveler and photographer, Alain is also an international conference speaker, and a published author of several video courses.