Angular History

Angular's key milestones and feature releases.

Angular 20: Angular 20 focuses on stable signaling, improved responsive forms, improved hydration, and new generation AI agent integration.

Angular 17: Angular 17 has introduced advanced router. Built-in control flow (@if, @for), default standalone components, and SSR improvements have been introduced. Rendering has been improved.

Angular 14: Angular 14 was a significant milestone release that focused primarily on reducing boilerplate code, improving type safety, strongly typed reactive forms, and improving the developer experience.

Angular 8,10: HTTPClient is introduced, a powerful observable-based service for HTTP requests. Added CLI builders. Introduce the new rendering engine Ivy Renderer, which provides faster compilation and smaller bundle sizes.

Angular 4: Improved AOT compilation, smaller bundles and faster rendering introduced, stable animations added.

Angular2: The Google team decided to completely rewrite the framework from scratch. Angular 2.0 was first released in 2016 and Angular 2.0 is completely different in design and architecture from AngularJS. It has evolved into a component-based MVVM framework. Angular adopted TypeScript as its primary language and introduced an advanced dependency injection system.

AngularJS: The first version was released in 2010. It was a JavaScript-based framework and used the MVC architecture. This version of AngularJS was also known as Angular 1.0. It became very popular to create single page applications. Due to some flexibility issues and architectural differences with later versions, AngularJS discontinued its continuity.