Changelog of Become a Ninja with Angular
Here is the full changelog of the ebook Become a Ninja with Angular, release per release, chapter per chapter.
You can download the latest version (these updates are free to any buyer!).
Currently supported versions
- Angular:
19.0.5 - Angular CLI:
19.0.6
Changes in ebook
Send and receive data with Http:
Showcase how to use
toSignal to subscribe.
Advanced components and directives:
Use
viewChild()/contentChild() instead of decorators.
Signals: advanced topics:
New chapter about advanced topics with Signals!
Signals: advanced topics:
Add a section about the
resource and rxResource functions introduced in v19.
Signals: advanced topics:
Add a section about the experimental
linkedSignal introduced in v19.
Performances:
Rewrite the chapter to use signals and solve a lot of problems our of the box!
Reactive Programming:
Rewrite and introduce the interoperability with signals.
Building components and directives:
Chapter updated to explain
input() and output().
Reacting to signal changes:
New chapter about
computed and effect and how to use them.
Signals basics:
New chapter to introduce signal basics at the beginning of the ebook!
The templating syntax:
Add a section about
@let variables, as introduced in Angular v18.1.
Building components and directives:
Add a section about
afterRender and afterNextRender.
Performances:
Refresh the performances chapter regarding the control flow syntax, signals, and the experimental zoneless detection
Performances:
Mention the
--ssr option of the CLI for Server Side Rendering.
Forms:
Mention the
events observable on FormControl, introduced in Angular v18.
Building components and directives:
Add a section about fallback content for
ng-content, as introduced in Angular v18.
Send and receive data with Http:
Mention that
HttpClientModule is deprecated in Angular v18.
The templating syntax:
The chapter now introduces
@if/@for/@switch from the control flow syntax as the recommended way to write templates.
We kept a section about *ngIf/*ngFor/*ngSwitch as they are not deprecated and can still be used.
All template examples across the ebook now use the control flow syntax.
Internationalization:
Add a section about i18n with Transloco and new exercice to go along with it!
Signals:
Add a section about the
output() function introduced in v17.3
Advanced observables:
Add a section about using subjects as triggers.
Signals:
Add a section about the
model() function introduced in v17.2
Signals:
Add a section about the queries as signals functions (
viewChild()/viewChildren()/contentChild()/contentChildren()) introduced in v17.2
Deferred loading with `@defer`:
The defer block fixture default behavior switched to
Playthrough.
Signals:
Add a section about input as signals, as introduced in v17.1
Signals:
Mention the new
Signals exercise added to the Pro Pack!
Signals:
Add a section about how to handle nullable values in signals.
Styling components and encapsulation:
We now use
styleUrl when possible, as introduced in Angular v17.
Deferred loading with `@defer`:
New chapter about deferred loading with
@defer as introduced in Angular v17!
Signals:
Remove the
mutate method from examples,a s it has been remove in Angular v17.
Control flow syntax:
New chapter about the control flow syntax introduced in Angular v17!
Building components and directives:
Add a section about the
transform option of @Input, introduced in Angular v16.1.
Signals:
New chapter about Signals!
Building components and directives:
Introduce required inputs, as added in Angular v16
Router:
Add a section about
withComponentInputBinding to get router parameters and data as component inputs, as introduced in Angular v16
Advanced observables:
Use the
takeUntilDestroyed RxJS operator introduced in Angular v16
Router:
As Angular v15.2 deprecates class-based resolvers and guards, we now use functional resolvers and guards in all examples.
Router:
Remove the section about the
CanLoad guard as it is now deprecated (use CanMatch instead).
Going to production:
Explains how to use
ng generate environments.
Dependency Injection:
Use a better example for DI configuration, with a logging service that logs to the console in development and calls an API in production.
Dependency Injection:
Add a section about the
inject() function.
Standalone components:
Add a section about HTTP with
provideHttpClient and functional interceptors.
Dependency Injection:
Remove the
providedIn: NgModule syntax now that it is deprecated in Angular v15
Router:
The router automatically unwraps default module exports in lazy-loading routes in Angular v15
Standalone components:
Use the
NgFor alias introduced in Angular v15 for the NgForOf directive
Standalone components:
The router now automatically unwraps default component exports in lazy-loading routes
Going to production:
Replace the explanation of
enableProdMode by a section about production mode and mention the ngDevMode variable.
Going to production:
We now explain how to use
fileReplacements as it is no longer included by default in CLI v15.
Router:
Showcases an example of a functional resolver
Router:
Showcases an example of functional guard
Standalone components:
Mention
provideRouter(routes)
Performances:
Mention the experimental
NgOptimizedImage directive introduced in v14.2
Router:
Add a section on the new
CanMatch guard introduced in v14.1
Forms:
Add a section about
FormArray and FormRecord
Forms:
Add a section about typed forms
Forms:
We nows use and explain the new "strictly typed forms API" 🚀
Standalone components:
New chapter about standalone APIs!
Performances:
Better example of
NgZone.runOutsideAngular usage
Going to production:
Section about the new
extendedDiagnostics option introduced in v13.2
Advanced components and directives:
The advanced components chapter has a new section about ng-template, explaining how to create customizable components using conditional, contextual content projection
Forms:
The forms chapter has a new section about control value accessors, explaining how to create custom form controls
The templating syntax:
Remove the canonical
bind-, on-, ref- syntax that has been deprecated in Angular v13
Going to production:
Remove the section about differential loading as it has been removed in Angular v13
Going to production:
Remove the
fullTemplateTypeCheck explanation, as it is deprecated in Angular v13, and only keep its remplacement strictTemplates.
Reactive Programming:
RxJS v7.2 allows to import operators directly from
rxjs, so all imports have been simplified.
Global:
Add links to our quizzes!
Global:
All examples now use strict null checks.
From zero to something:
The ebook now uses ESLint as its linter.
Testing your app:
The e2e tests section now introduces Cypress
Send and receive data with Http:
Section about the new
HttpContext introduced in Angular v12.
Send and receive data with Http:
The HTTP examples now use the human-readable
HttpStatusCode enum.
Going to production:
The CLI uses the production configuration by default for
ng build since v12, and the --prod flag is deprecated.
Internationalization:
ng xi18n has been renamed ng extract-i18n in CLI v11
Internationalization:
xi18N now extracts messages from the $localize calls in TypeScript code
Testing your app:
async has been deprecated and renamed waitForAsync
Internationalization:
Import the global variants of the locale data. It's simpler, supports all formatting options, and doesn't trigger an optimization bailout warning when building the app with the CLI.
Global:
Bump to ng
10.0.0
The wonderful world of Web Components:
Use
customElements.define instead of the deprecated document.registerElement.
Reactive Programming:
Pass an object as argument to the
Observable.subscribe() method when an error or a completion must be handled, instead of 2 or 3 functions, because passing several functions will be deprecated in RxJS 7.
Global:
Bump to ng
9.1.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
9.1.0
Global:
Bump to ng
9.0.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
9.0.1
Internationalization:
Explains how to configure the default currency code
Internationalization:
Introduce
@angular/localize usage in ng 9.0.0
Going to production:
Mention the multiple configurations support introduced in CLI v9.0
Going to production:
Explain the
fullTemplateTypeCheck and strictTemplates options
Global:
Bump to ng
9.0.0-next.5
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
9.0.0-next.3
Testing your app:
Use
TestBed.inject instead of the deprecated TestBed.get in ng 9.0.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
8.3.2
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
8.3.0
Diving into TypeScript:
Showcase interface usage for modeling entities
Diving into TypeScript:
Improve the
enum section with examples of how to use union types
Advanced TypeScript:
Introduce a new chapter about advanced TypeScript patterns, like
keyof, mapped types, type guards, and other things!
A gentle introduction to ECMAScript 2015+:
Add a section about tagged template strings.
Global:
Bump to ng
8.2.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
8.2.0
Testing your app:
Use a more strictly typed
createSpyObj syntax.
Global:
Bump to ng
8.1.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
8.1.0
The wonderful world of Web Components:
Mention more recent alternatives to Polymer, remove the dead HTML import spec and mention Angular Elements
Global:
Bump to ng
8.0.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
8.0.0
Advanced components and directives:
Add and explain the
static flag for ViewChild and ContentChild introduced by Angular 8.0.0
Testing your app:
Showcase the awesome
ngx-speculoos library for cleaner unit tests
Router:
Use
import for lazy-loading routes as introduced by ng 8.0.0
Angular compiler:
Update the AoT explanation and generated code for Angular 8.0.0 (Ivy)
Going to production:
Differential loading using
browserslist as introduced by the cli 8.0.0.
A gentle introduction to ECMAScript 2015+:
How to use
async/await with promises
Forms:
Showcase the awesome
ngx-valdemort library for better validation error messages
From zero to something:
Bump cli to
7.3.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.2.0
Global:
Bump to ng
7.2.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.2.0-rc.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.2.0-beta.2
Global:
Bump to ng
7.2.0-rc.0
Global:
Bump to ng
7.2.0-beta.2
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.1.0
Global:
Bump to ng
7.1.0
Router:
Use
UrlTree in CanActivate guard, as introduced by 7.1
Global:
Bump to ng
7.1.0-rc.0
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.2
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.0.4
Going to production:
Adds a new chapter about Going to production!
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.0.2
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.0
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.0-rc.1
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.0-rc.0
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.0-beta.6
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.0-beta.4
Global:
Bump to ng
7.0.0-beta.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
7.0.1
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
6.2.1
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
6.2.0-rc.0
Performances:
Adds a performances chapter!
Global:
Bump to ng
6.1.0
Global:
Bump to ng
6.1.0-rx.0
Global:
Bump to ng
6.1.0-beta.1
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
6.1.0
Pipes:
Add the
keyvalue pipe introduced in Angular 6.1
Styling components and encapsulation:
New
ShadowDom encapsulation option with Shadow DOM v1 support (the old and soon deprecated Native option uses Shadow DOM v0)
Router:
Adds the
Scroll event and scrollPositionRestoration option introduced in 6.1
Advanced observables:
Use
shareReplay instead of publishReplay and refCount
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.7
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
6.0.8
Send and receive data with Http:
HTTP tests now use
verify every time
Pipes:
Show usage of formatting functions available since Angular 6.0
From zero to something:
Bump cli to
6.0.7
Internationalization:
Update for CLI 6.0 and use a dedicated configuration
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.0
From zero to something:
Bump to cli
6.0.0
Dependency Injection:
Use
providedIn to register services, as recommended for Angular 6.0
Services:
Use
providedIn to register the service, as recommended for Angular 6.0
Testing your app:
Simplify service unit tests now that they use
providedIn from ng 6.0
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.0-rc.4
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.0-rc0
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.0-beta.7
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.0-beta.6
Global:
Bump to ng
6.0.0-beta.1
Advanced components and directives:
Angular 6.0+ allows to type ElementRef
Advanced observables:
We now use the imports introduced in RxJS 6.0 (
import { Observable, of } from 'rxjs')
From zero to something:
The chapter now uses Angular CLI from the start!
Dependency Injection:
Updates the dependency injection via token section with a better example
Reactive Programming:
We now use the pipeable operators introduced in RxJS 5.5
Advanced observables:
We now use the pipeable operators introduced with RxJS 5.5
The wonderful world of Web Components:
Replace customelements.io by webcomponents.org
Global:
Bump to ng
5.2.0
Building components and directives:
Better lifecycle explanation
Forms:
Reintroduce the
min and max validators from version 4.2.0, even if they are not available as directives.
Send and receive data with Http:
Remove remaining mentions to the deprecated
HttpModule and Http
Global:
Bump to ng
5.1.0
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-rc.5
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-rc.3
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-rc.2
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-rc.0
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-beta.6
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-beta.5
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-beta.4
Global:
Bump to ng
5.0.0-beta.1
Pipes:
Use the new i18n pipes introduced in ng 5.0.0
Forms:
Add a section on the
updateOn: 'blur' option for controls and groups introduced in 5.0
Send and receive data with Http:
Use object literals for headers and params for the new http client, introduced in 5.0.0
Router:
Adds ng 5.0
ChildActivationStart/ChildActivationEnd to the router events
Internationalization:
Remove deprecated i18n comment with ng 5.0.0
Internationalization:
Show how to load the locale data as required in ng 5.0.0 and uses the new i18n pipes
Internationalization:
Placeholders now displays the interpolation in translation files to help translators
Global:
Bump to ng
4.4.1
Forms:
Remove the section about combining template-based and code-based approaches
Global:
Bump to ng
4.3.0
Send and receive data with Http:
Updates the chapter to use the new
HttpClientModule introduced in ng 4.3.0.
Router:
List the new router events introduced in 4.3.0
Advanced components and directives:
Add a section about
HostBinding
Advanced components and directives:
Add a section about
HostListener
Advanced components and directives:
New chapter on advanced components, with
ViewChild, ContentChild and ng-content!
Global:
Bump to ng
4.2.3
Forms:
Remove min/max validators mention, as they have been removed temporarily in ng 4.2.3
Global:
Bump to ng
4.2.0
Forms:
Introduce the
min and max validators from version 4.2.0
Angular compiler:
Adds a chapter about the Angular compiler and the differences between JiT and AoT.
Global:
Bump to ng
4.1.0
Router:
New chapter on advanced router usage: protected routes with guards, nested routes, resolvers and lazy-loading!
Global:
🎉 Bump to stable release
4.0.0 🎉
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-rc.6
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-rc.5
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-rc.4
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-rc.3
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-rc.1
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-beta.8
Global:
Bump to ng
4.0.0-beta.7 and TS 2.1+ is now required
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-beta.5
Global:
Bump to
4.0.0-beta.0
The templating syntax:
Use
as, introduced in 4.0.0, instead of let for variables in templates
The templating syntax:
The
template tag is now deprecated in favor of ng-template in 4.0
The templating syntax:
Introduces the else syntax from version 4.0.0
Pipes:
Introduce the
as syntax to store a NgIf or NgFor result, which can be useful with some pipes like slice or async.
Pipes:
Adds
titlecase pipe introduced in 4.0.0
Services:
New
Meta service in 4.0.0 to get/set meta tags
Testing your app:
overrideTemplate has been added in 4.0.0
Forms:
Introduce the
email validator from version 4.0.0
Send and receive data with Http:
Use
params instead of the deprecated search in 4.0.0
Router:
Use
paramMap introduced in 4.0 instead of params
Advanced observables:
Shows the
as syntax introduced in 4.0.0 as an alternative for the mulitple async pipe subscriptions problem
Internationalization:
Add a new chapter on internationalization (i18n)
Global:
Each chapter now has a link to the corresponding exercise of our Pro Pack
Chapters are slightly re-ordered to match the exercises order.
Dependency Injection:
Fix the Babel 6 config for dependency injection without TypeScript
Global:
Bump to
2.4.4
Global:
The big rename: "Angular 2" is now known as "Angular"
Forms:
Fix the
NgModel explanation
Global:
Bump to
2.4.0
Forms:
Validators.compose() is no longer necessary, we can apply several validators by just passing an array.
Global:
Bump to
2.2.0
Forms:
Add an async validator example
Forms:
Remove the useless (2.2+)
.control in templates like username.control.hasError('required').
Router:
routerLinkActive can be exported (2.2+).
Advanced observables:
New chapter on Advanced Observables!
Global:
Bump to
2.1.0
Global:
Remove typings and use
npm install @types/...
Router:
We don't need to unsubscribe from the router params in the
ngOnDestroy method.
Global:
Use
const instead of let and TypeScript type inference whenever possible
Testing your app:
Use
TestBed.get instead of inject in tests
Global:
Bump to
2.0.1
Global:
🎉 Bump to stable release
2.0.0 🎉
Global:
Bump to
rc.7
Global:
Bump to
rc.6
From zero to something:
Update the SystemJS config for
rc.6 and bump the RxJS version
Pipes:
Remove the section about the replace pipe, removed in rc.6
Global:
Bump to
rc.5
Forms:
Forms now use the new form API (FormsModule and ReactiveFormsModule).
Services:
Add the service to the module's providers
Send and receive data with Http:
Add the HttpModule import
Router:
Introduce RouterModule
Dependency Injection:
Introduce modules and their role in DI.
Changed the example to use a custom service instead of Http.
Testing your app:
Tests now use the TestBed API instead of the deprecated TestComponentBuilder one.
From zero to something:
Small introduction to NgModule when you start your app from scratch
Changelog:
Mention free updates and web page for obtaining latest version
Global:
Bump to
rc.4
Testing your app:
Angular 2 does not provide Jasmine wrappers and custom matchers for unit tests in
rc.4 anymore
Router:
Update the router to the API v3!
Global:
Bump to
rc.3
Global:
Bump to
rc.2
The templating syntax:
Replace the deprecated
ngSwitchWhen with ngSwitchCase
Pipes:
Date pipe is now fixed in
rc.2, no more problem with Intl API
Forms:
Warn about forms module being rewritten (and deprecated)
Send and receive data with Http:
http.post() now autodetects the body type, removing the need of using JSON.stringify and setting the ContentType
Router:
Warn about router module being rewritten (and deprecated)
Dependency Injection:
Remove deprecated
provide() method and use {provide: ...} instead
Global:
Bump to
rc.1
Global:
Code examples now follow the official style guide
Styling components and encapsulation:
New chapter on styling components and the different encapsulation strategies!
Router:
Introduce the new router (previous one is deprecated), and how to use parameters in URLs!
Global:
Bump to
rc.0. All packages have changed!
Global:
Bump to
beta.17
Testing your app:
injectAsync is now deprecated and replaced by async
Zones and the Angular magic:
New chapter! Let's talk about how Angular 2 works under the hood!
First part is about how AngularJS 1.x used to work,
and then we'll see how Angular 2 differs,
and uses a new concept called zones.
Global:
Bump to
beta.15
The templating syntax:
*ngFor now also exports a first variable
Pipes:
A
replace pipe has been introduced
Forms:
A pattern validator has been introduced to make sure that the input matches a regexp
Global:
Bump to
beta.14
Global:
Bump to
beta.11
Global:
Bump to
beta.9
Global:
Bump to
beta.8
Global:
Bump to
beta.7
Global:
Display the Angular 2 version used in the intro and in the chapter "Zero to something".
Global:
Bump to
beta.6 (beta.4 and beta.5 were broken)
Global:
Bump to
beta.3
Global:
Bump to
beta.2
Diving into TypeScript:
Use
typings instead of tsd.
Dependency Injection:
Better explanation of hierarchical injectors
Reactive Programming:
Observables are not scheduled for ES7 anymore
Building components and directives:
Explain how to remove the compilation warning when using
@Input and a setter at the same time
Building components and directives:
Add an explanation on
isFirstChange for ngOnChanges
Testing your app:
Add an example on how to test an event emitter
Forms:
Add a mnemonic tip to rememeber the
[()] syntax: the banana box!
Forms:
Examples use
module.id to have a relative templateUrl
Forms:
Fix error
ng-no-form -> ngNoForm
Forms:
Fix errors
(ngModel) -> (ngModelChange), is-old-enough -> isOldEnough
Send and receive data with Http:
Use
JSON.stringify before sending data with a POST
Send and receive data with Http:
Add a mention to
JSONP_PROVIDERS
Router:
RouterOutlet inserts the template of the component just after itself and not inside itself
Global:
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