Angular Addicts #34: Angular 19.1, AI & Angular, introduction to DDD & more

👋Hey fellow Angular Addict

This is the 34th issue of the Angular Addicts Newsletter, a monthly collection of carefully selected Angular resources that caught my attention. (Here are the 33rd, 32nd and 31st)

📜The best of Angular: a collection of my favorite resources of 2024

I collected the best Angular articles of 2024, so if you are looking to develop your Angular skills or get up to speed with some of the newest solutions, check out these insightful pieces.

📢 Release announcements

📢 What's new in Angular 19.1?

By Cédric Exbrayat

Angular 19.1, the latest minor version of Angular, was released in January. Cédric covers the key new features:

• Automatic removal of unused standalone imports
• The ngComponentOutlet directive now has a componentInstance property
• Devtools: router graph
• CLI: Templates HMR
• CLI: i18n subPath
• CLI: SSR redirection to preferred locale
• CLI: SSR preload lazy-loaded routes
• CLI: ng-packagr builder
• CLI: Warning about bad localize import

📢Nx Update: 20.3!

By Zack DeRose

These are the new features since Nx 20 was released:

• Typescript Project References And Workspaces Support
• Rspack updates
• New Nx Console Feature: CI Pipeline Status in Your IDE!
• Nx Cloud Enhancements
• Angular 19 Support
• Core Performance Improvements
• Powerpack Updates
• RFC for Infinite Tasks

📢Tailwind CSS v4.0

Some of the key improvements:

• New high-performance engine — where full builds are up to 5x faster, and incremental builds are over 100x faster — and measured in microseconds.
• Designed for the modern web — built on cutting-edge CSS features like cascade layers, registered custom properties with @property, and color-mix().
• Simplified installation — fewer dependencies, zero configuration, and just a single line of code in your CSS file.
• First-party Vite plugin — tight integration for maximum performance and minimum configuration.

💎Angular Gems of January, 2025

📰 Angular 2025 Strategy

By Minko Gechev

Presents Developer survey 2024 results and plans for 2025

📰 Introduction to Domain-Driven Design (for Frontend developers, but not only)

By Tomasz Ducin

A five-part series covering::

• DDD is not about technology
• Talk to domain experts
• Speaking ubiquitous language
• Autonomous Models in Bounded Contexts
• Your Frontend itself is NOT a Bounded Context

📰 Signal decision chart

By Matthieu Riegler

What is the right tool for your use case ?

📰Enhancing Angular Templates with Untagged Template Literals

By Netanel Basal

Angular 19.2 will support untagged template literals in expressions.

📰Build a sentiment classifier with Chrome's Prompt API in Angular

By Connie Leung

This article is a part of Connie's Chrome AI Series:

• Build a translation app with Chrome's Built-in Translation API in Angular
• Build a language detection app with Chrome's Language Detection API in Angular
• Build a sentiment classifier with Chrome's Prompt API in Angular
• Use Chrome's Prompt API to generate a trip planner in Angular
• Configure temperature and topK in Chrome's Prompt API

Chrome's built-in AI offers the advantage of zero cost by utilizing local models within Chrome Canary.

📰 Built RxJS Visualizer in 4 Hours with AI - No Coding!

By Daniel Glejzner

Building an RxJS Marble Diagram visualizer React app using bolt.new.

📰My favorite Angular Setup in 2025

By Rainer Hahnekamp

Best practices and tools for Angular in 2025.

📰The Tree Shaking Journey in Angular: A Deep Dive

By Santosh Yadav

👨‍💻About the author

My name is Gergely Szerovay, I worked as a data scientist and full-stack developer for many years, and I have been working as frontend tech lead, focusing on Angular based frontend development. As part of my role, I'm constantly following how Angular and the frontend development scene in general is evolving. To share my knowledge, I started the Angular Addicts monthly newsletter and publication in 2022, so that I can send you the best resources I come across each month. Whether you are a seasoned Angular Addict or a beginner, I got you covered. Let me know if you would like to be included as a writer. Let’s learn Angular together! Subscribe here 🔥

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🕹️Previous issues

If you missed the previous issues of the newsletter, you can read them here, these are the latest 3 issues:

• Angular Addicts #33: NgRx 19, using the Page Object Model in tests, Micro Frontends using Vite & more
• Angular Addicts #32: Angular 19, new Style guide RFC & more
• Angular Addicts #31: The new Resource API, effect updates & more

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