Category: 4. Facts

1. Standalone Components: Angular 13 introduced standalone components, which simplify the creation and management of components by removing the need for NgModules.
2. ESBuild Integration: Angular 13 integrated with esbuild for faster builds and optimizations, enhancing the overall development experience.
3. Updated Angular CLI: Angular 13 made improvements to the Angular CLI, including better performance and new features for managing projects.
4. Extended TypeScript Support: Angular 13 continued to update its support for the latest TypeScript versions, ensuring compatibility with new language features.
5. Improved Debugging and Profiling Tools: Angular 13 enhanced debugging and profiling tools, making it easier for developers to identify performance bottlenecks and issues.
6. Further Optimizations for Ivy: Angular continued to optimize the Ivy compiler and runtime, improving performance and reducing bundle sizes.

1. Ivy Everywhere: Angular 12 made Ivy the default rendering engine, and the legacy View Engine was fully removed. Ivy offers better performance and smaller bundle sizes.
2. Strict Mode by Default: Angular 12 made strict mode the default setting for new projects, which enables stricter type-checking and helps catch potential issues early.
3. Support for Webpack 5: Angular 12 upgraded to Webpack 5, bringing performance improvements and new features for bundling.
4. Better Performance with ng build: Angular 12 included improvements to the ng build command, optimizing build performance.
5. Faster Builds and Smaller Bundles: The Angular team worked on improving build times and reducing the size of generated bundles.
6. Deprecated APIs: Angular 12 started deprecating certain APIs and features that were considered outdated or redundant.

1. Faster Builds with Improved HMR: Angular 11 improved the Hot Module Replacement (HMR) feature, making it faster and more reliable for development purposes.
2. Updated Language Service: The Angular Language Service saw performance improvements and bug fixes, enhancing the developer experience in editors like VS Code.
3. Enhanced Build Performance: Angular 11 brought performance optimizations to the build process, including better build time for larger projects.
4. Automatic Inlining of Critical CSS: Angular 11 introduced the ability to inline critical CSS automatically, improving the performance of the initial page load.
5. Improved Diagnostics: Angular 11 enhanced the error messages and diagnostics provided during the development process, making it easier to troubleshoot issues.
6. Updated ESLint Integration: Angular 11 replaced TSLint with ESLint as the default linting tool, aligning with the broader JavaScript ecosystem.

Angular Material and the Component Dev Kit (CDK) received updates for better accessibility and new components.

Angular 10 started the deprecation process for the legacy View Engine, paving the way for the Ivy compiler, which offers better performance and smaller bundle sizes.

Angular 10 introduced the ability to create new projects with stricter type checking and linting options, helping developers catch potential issues early in the development process.

Angular 10 made improvements to the data binding and template syntax, reducing the need for unnecessary code and improving the clarity of templates.

Angular 10 added support for dynamic imports in route configurations. This allows for more flexible and efficient lazy loading of modules.

Angular 10 upgraded to TypeScript 3.9, which brought performance improvements and new features like better type checking and faster compilation.

Angular 10 introduced a new set of default browser configurations that included support for modern browsers, which improved performance and reduced the polyfills required.