How Angular Provides You Out-of-the-World Experience?

Angular is a part of the JavaScript ecosystem and one of the most popular software development instruments today. It is supported by Google and is an open-source software engineering platform used for building user interfaces (front-end). Initially released as AngularJS, it was rewritten as Angular 2 in 2016, and is updated all the way to the current version Angular 11- which brought many improvements affecting the framework, its platform, CLI, and Angular Material. The framework itself has also experienced some changes in syntax, type checking, CSS style binding, and it has received a new compilation method since Angular version 9 it’s been improving. Angular is a very competent JavaScript technology and has seen a massive and steady rise in popularity throughout the years.

Needless to say, despite having a bit of a steep learning curve Angular is quite a strong and robust platform. Let’s take a look at some of its benefits:

Two-way data binding

Angular was built with Model-View-Controller architecture. And the framework synchronized the Model and the View. Unlike other web frameworks, which implement two-way data binding by using fragile event listeners and handlers, Angular makes this process an integral function of its architecture. Consequently, there’s little need for sequential callbacks to handle modified data or developer interventions.

TypeScript Language

Angular is written using TypeScript language, which is basically a superset for JavaScript. It fully compiles to JavaScript, but helps spot and eliminate common mistakes in real-time. While small JavaScript projects don’t require such an enhancement, the enterprise-scale applications challenge developers to make their code cleaner and verify its quality more often. As of latest Angular release, Angular supports Typescript 4.0. A hot feature added in TypeScript and now available in Angular is optional chaining. This feature allows users to read values hidden deep in the chain without prior validation of each element of the chain.

Ivy renderer

The new Angular engine is all about its super-optimized bundle size, loading speed, and dynamic loading of components. Ivy renderer aims for unparalleled code debugging and user-friendly app experience. It makes the framework accessible and sets an example by reducing the file sizes though making the framework a feature-rich platform.

Ivy is the third iteration of the Angular renderer after the original compiler and renderer2. With the Angular 9 update, Ivy became a standard compiler and runtime for Angular applications. One of the interesting features of Ivy is tree-shaking. It refers to the component tree on the rendering stage, meaning that it removes unused chunks of code, making the applications smaller and faster to load. This can optimize the size of large applications, as well as improve their performance. Also, it’s backward compatible: After the Angular update, your existing applications will be rendered with Ivy without additional hassle.

Improved Productivity with Code Reusability

With Angular, developers invest less time and effort, for it lets them reuse blocks of code and streamlines the development process. It results in bringing about more functionality with shorter codes making it productive for the teams working on back-to-back similar projects. Also, the code readability of angular is smooth allowing newcomers to easily grasp the ongoing project.

Ready-To-Use components

Angular offers a set of ready-to-use components from pre-built UI kits to components in guidelines with Google Design Principles. All of this under Angular Material not only saves time but also help developers to increase performance. Angular Material UI component contains Buttons, Cards, Icons, Grids, Menus, Sliders and a lot more. All this while being versatile, frictionless and high quality.

Angular Universal

Angular Universal is a service that allows for rendering applications view on a server instead of client browsers. Google provides a set of tools to either pre-render your application or re-render it for each request by a user. Currently, the toolset is tailored to Node.JS server-side frameworks and supports ASP.NET Core. Google claims that they are going to add support for PHP, Python, and Java.

Code Consistency and Robust Ecosystem

For any strong development environment to be successful, code consistency is the key. Thanks to the Angular CLI and documentation style guide, they both drive consistency at the pioneer level. Angular CLI tool lets the developer create initial projects, run the tests, and add different features in the same project while keeping the entire team on the same page. Developers to be thankful for the style guide that Angular offers. This way, the communication between the team becomes comfortable and less likely to be misinterpreted.

The robust ecosystem of the framework has exceptionally given the power of dependency injection and other resources to the developer communities.

Google Long-Term Support and Material Design

Angular is supported by Google, a major advantage of the technology. While this may sound justified, Google itself is not enough. The good sign though is that Google announced Long-Term Support (LTS) for the technology.

The Angular team has been updating their framework with material design components. With Angular Material you get prebuilt components the variety of which span across form controls, navigation elements, layouts, buttons and indicators, popups, modal windows, and data tables. They are adjusted to Angular use and easy to integrate into a project.

Angular has been around for a very long time and is currently one of the top most popular JavaScript frameworks. It has a strong, active community and easy access to myriad of plugins, IDEs, external support and information. Developers love this all-time leading framework because of the consistent code structure it maintains, two-way data binding, code reusability etc.

Angular enables developers to write code with simpler structures and simplifies writing code with better facilitation of testing configurations. With long term Google support, it will continue to grow, get updated and receive newer, cutting edge features. It's truly a great framework!