Angular 18 Release Timeline
The Angular team is set to ship Angular 18 within the next few days. Community members can look forward to several release celebrations on Thursday, May 23rd. For the primary event, the official Angular YouTube channel will host the stream.
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Highlights from Google I/O
Last week saw the annual Google I/O developer conference. Recordings from the event have since been uploaded to YouTube.
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During the Angular session at I/O, the team's presenters—Jessica Janiuk, Jeremy Elbourn, and Minko Gechev—surveyed recent capabilities and offered a preview of what's on the horizon. A significant portion of their discussion centered on advancements in hydration techniques and zoneless change detection.
Elbourn also touched on the evolving authoring format and what he termed "selectorless" components. With this concept, a component's selector along with its corresponding import in the parent component would no longer be necessary. This forthcoming feature aims to further trim repetitive boilerplate code.
An intriguing moment arose when Elbourn brought up the Analog format, a topic that has historically sparked considerable discussion and debate.
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Elbourn noted that the Angular team shares a similar perspective on the challenges and prospective solutions related to the authoring format.
Recap of JSWorld
The JSWorld conference also made its session recordings public. The standout presentation was "Web Development at Google," which comprised three sub-talks delivered by the Aurora team, a group focused on collaborating with various tools to enhance web performance and capabilities. The other two presentations centered on Angular and Wiz, the latter having recently announced a unification of efforts with Angular.
Jatin Ramanathan, representing Wiz, detailed the mechanics of JSAction. This technology is poised to be a fundamental building block for the partial hydration features slated for Angular.
Beyond the main talks, a panel brought together authors from various frameworks and tooling projects. Their wide-ranging conversation covered topics such as Signals, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), and artificial intelligence.
TiL Conference Notes
The "This is Learning" conference also convened, featuring its own diverse agenda. For those who missed the live event, the stream recordings are accessible on YouTube. The schedules for both days are available at the following links: