Angular Addicts Issue #5: New features in Angular 14.2, Bundle size optimization, Tutorials & more

My favorite Angular resources of August, 2022

Sep 1, 2022

👋Hey fellow Angular Addict

This is the 5th issue of the Angular Addicts Newsletter, a monthly collection of carefully selected Angular resources that got my attention. (You can read the first, second, third and fourth issue here.)

💎Angular Gems of August, 2022

📰Why Angular 14’s new inject() function is so amazing?

The inject() function was introduced in Angular 14.0, it takes an InjectionToken as a parameter and returns its value from the currently active injector. In his article, Vlad Gheorghita shows multiple different use cases for this new feature.

Why Angular 14’s new inject() function is so amazing?

📰The Ultimate Clean Architecture Template for TypeScript Projects

Aziz Nal shares a Typescript project architecture that allows your code to be independent of frameworks, databases, or UIs and makes your code more testable. In his second article, he demonstrates an Angular project based on his template.

📰Optimize the Bundle Size using Source Map Explorer

Mohammedfahimullah demonstrates how to analyze the bundle size of an Angular application, then shows us some interesting optimization techniques.

Optimize the Bundle Size using Source Map Explorer

📰Design systems: Prototyping on steroids

In his article, Daniël De Wit explains how their team creates high fidelity prototypes based on their own design system, using Angular.

Design systems: Prototyping on steroids

📢Release and deprecation announcements

📢 Angular 14.2.0 is out

Netanel Basal covered the most interesting new features in the following articles:

📢The State of end-to-end testing with Angular by Mark Thompson (@marktechson)

The Angular Team deprecated Protector, its last release will be released in Angular v16.

The State of end-to-end testing with Angular

📢Nx 14.5 — Cypess v10, Output globs, Linter perf, React Tailwind support

Juri Strumpflohner summarizes the changes in the latest version of NX:

Cypress v10 and Component Testing
Globs for Task Outputs in nx.json
Parameter Forwarding when building dependent projects
Nx module boundary lint rule feature improvements, it got an order of magnitude faster
Nx Migrate improvements and Nx Repair
Tailwind Setup Generator for React
React Native: Add Detox config to Expo apps

Nx 14.5 — Cypess v10, Output globs, Linter perf, React Tailwind support

👨‍🏫Tutorials and guides

👨‍🏫How To Quickly Get Started With GraphQL in Angular

Haroun Chebbi walks us through the setup of an Angular project with Apollo Angular and Angular Material, then creates a country list application.

How To Quickly Get Started With GraphQL in Angular

👨‍🏫What is App monitoring?

Bhoomi Bhalani explains the importance of application monitoring and demonstrates how to set up Sentry for an Angular app.

What is App monitoring?

👨‍🏫How to create your own Angular Tooltip Directive

In his tutorial, Piotr Gołofit shows us how to create a lightweight, plain HTML/CSS based tooltip directive in Angular.

How to create your own Angular Tooltip Directive — a short tutorial

💬 Tweets

Here is a collection of my favorite tweets from August, 2022:

Minko Gechev @mgechev

That's a new way for reusing UI logic 🔥

Chau Tran @Nartc1410

Testing the NgOptimizedImage directive in @angular 14.2 out and it's 🔥. Free performance gains with extremely less effort. Awesome effort by #GoogleAurora and #Angular for bringing this Directive to the community Note: This is a very simple page: 5 images with 5 different sizes

A screenshot of Lighthouse score of a website with 5 images. The score shows 79 points for Performance

A screenshot of Lighthouse score of a website with 5 images, with NgOptimizedImage directive. The score shows 98 points for Performance

Angular @angular

Guess what? v14.2 is out now! ng update for: → Developer Preview of a new Image Directive in collaboration with @ChromiumDev 🌠 → CDK Listbox is stable → ng serve with service-worker support → Developer Preview of standalone support in @angular Elements + more! https://t.co/y0FAJxFN2M

Enea Jahollari 🅰 @Enea_Jahollari

Here's an example of functional guards that just landed in #angular v14.2. Yes, we can use inject function inside the guard function. How? Because the guard function will be executed in an injection context. Thanks to @AScottAngular 🥳

Josh Goldberg 💖 👉 fosstodon.org/@JoshuaKGoldberg @JoshuaKGoldberg

Introducing chooseyourframework.dev: a cute lil retro/8bit helper for choosing a JavaScript UI framework. 🕹 💻 The game is built on a custom game engine made for retro games, and the whole site takes up <256 kB *uncompressed*. ⚡️ #javascript #angular #react #solid #svelte #vue

Recording of the Choose Your Framework site showing a Pokemon-like player walking in a lab to tables that have five JavaScript UI frameworks on them, and confirming the React framework with Oak

Chris Kohler @KohlerChristian

#Angular standalone components make storybook stories much simpler to write 🤩 See the comparison between: - Without standalone - With standalone I took the example stories from storybook: github.com/storybookjs/st…

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