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Himadri Patel
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What’s New in Angular 18: Key Features and Updates

Businesses want to give an impeccable experience to users with their web and mobile applications, but not everyone can do it. Billions of people use different mobile apps but very few apps are widely used and popular amongst users. Why? Not every app has user-friendly accessibility, an intuitive interface, and powerful performance that promotes user engagement and satisfaction. This is where Angular versions for the framework play a crucial role, ensuring applications have a seamless interface, enhanced accessibility, and robust performance.

A popular open-source JavaScript framework has kept evolving to meet the market demands and developers’ expectations releasing Angular’s latest versions with advanced and new features. The team Angular released the Angular 18 on May 22 introducing a range of features and improvements for enhanced performance, developer experience, and overall performance.

Before discussing the updates and latest Angular 18 features, let’s briefly introduce the widely popular Angular framework.

Highlights of The Angular Latest Version

  • Experimental support for zoneless change detection.
  • Angular.dev is now the new home for Angular developers.
  • Material 3, deferrable views, and built-in control flow are now stable.
  • Server-side rendering improvements such as i18n hydration support.
  • Signal APIs in developer preview.
  • Specified fallback content for ng-content.
  • Automated migration to the application builder.

List Of Major Latest Features Added In The Latest Angular Version

  1. Zoneless Change Detection
  2. Coalescing by Default
  3. Material 3 is now stable!
  4. Deferrable Views are Now Stable
  5. Built-in Control Flow is Now Stable
  6. Improvements in Server-Side Rendering
  7. Improved Debugging Experience
  8. Robust Hosting for Your Apps with Firebase App Hosting
  9. Understanding Event Replay in Angular
  10. Hydration Support in CDK and Material
  11. Route Redirects as Functions

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