Recordings from India's ng-india conference have been published, featuring a collection of Angular-focused presentations. On the AngularAir podcast, Manfred Steyer joined for a discussion on recent platform advancements. Meanwhile, the Spectator library rolled out version 15 with testing improvements, and Playwright moved to version 1.34, bringing enhancements to its UI.
ng-India Talks
The buzz around Signals appears to have quieted down for the moment after all the initial excitement. Still, that lull provides a good chance to catch up on some noteworthy happenings that might have slipped under the radar.
Take ng-india, for example—it's the largest Angular conference in India, and they've released the full video archive of their talks on YouTube. The single-day event took place at the end of February and covered a diverse set of subjects. Presenters touched on performance tuning, the ngrx component store, GraphQL, and a handful of other themes. Counting 14 sessions delivered by well-known figures in the community, the conference offered Angular developers plenty of substantive material to digest.
ng-India 2023 - YouTube
Talks from the 5th Edition of India's Largest Angular Conference, ng-India 2-2023
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Manfred Steyer on Angular Air
The AngularAir podcast recently hosted Manfred Steyer for an episode called "Angular's Renaissance," which walked through the full breadth of features added since Angular 14. Beyond covering standalone components and Signals, Steyer explored architectural considerations, offering listeners a range of useful viewpoints. Host Mike Brocchi kept the conversation lively with his questions and interjections throughout.
Fresh Updates
On the testing front, the Spectator library has reached version 15. This tool augments the testing workflow when working with Jasmine or Jest. It's carved out a strong following over time, sitting alongside "testing library" and ng-mocks as one of the go-to options in the Angular testing space.
Additionally, the Playwright E2E framework has advanced to version 1.34. That update brought new capabilities to its UI mode, freeing Playwright from its previous tie to VSCode and making it available across different development environments.