Reintroducing Angular with Angular v17 — Angular first appeared in the shape of AngularJS in 2010 and helped launch a wave of large-scale JavaScript frameworks. Angular remains popular in many use cases but is often overlooked in favor of newer options. v17 takes a leap forward in both features and vision, with the team rebranding Angular and repositioning it as a modern solution:
Vite and esbuild are the default for new projects.
Improved support for creating server side apps.
New, improved built-in control flow to make code less verbose.
Google pulled out all the stops for ▶️ the ‘Special Angular Event’ – an hour of talks, interviews and discussions to bring you up to speed.
Minko Gechev and the Angular Team
▶ Why Signals Are Better Than React Hooks — When Preact’s Marvin Hagemeister pops up in the comments saying “this is by far the best video about signals and why they are so exciting. I love the way you demonstrate it by coding along and moving an app over to signals,” it should bump a video up to the top of the Watch Later playlist.
Web Dev Simplified
📄 Articles & Tutorials
How to Do a JS to TypeScript Conversion — Chris, who led the conversion of a 150k LOC app to TypeScript, addresses a common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
Chris Krycho
Writing Components That Work in Any Framework — Looks at why web components can be difficult to adopt, and shows how using a higher-level library can let us “easily write components that work everywhere”.
Andrico Karoulla
🛠 Code & Tools
🖼 image-dimensions: Get the Dimensions of Images — Sindre’s latest creation is a simple but comprehensive one. A way to get the size (as width and height in pixels) for JPEG, PNG, APNG, and GIFs in any modern JS environment.
Sindre Sorhus
NOTABLE QUOTABLE
“The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.”
