Angular 14: The Latest & Top Features You Need To Know!
The latest Angular 14 version consists of some new features as well as solving the existing issues with the older versions.
Angular has come a long way in its development from version 2 to 14.
Angular 14 has finally arrived, following the success of its predecessor, Angular 13. The newest Angular version 14 is the Typescript-based web application framework and it has many new features like standalone components, which promise to simplify Angular Application Development by eliminating the need for Angular modules.
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New Features in Angular 14
1) Typed Forms
The cornerstone of many common applications is the ability to handle user input through forms. Forms are used in applications to allow users to log in, update their profiles, enter sensitive information, and do a variety of other data-entry tasks.
Reactive and template-driven techniques for processing user input through forms are available in Angular. Both capture user input events from the view, evaluate the user input, update the form model and data model, and keep track of changes.
Reactive forms are strictly typed by default in Angular 14.
const login = new FormGroup({
email: new FormControl(''),
password: new FormControl(''),
});
For interacting with this FormGroup, Angular offers a number of APIs. You can use login.value, login.controls, login.patchValue, and so on. (See the API documentation for a complete API reference.)
Most of these APIs had any somewhere in their types in previous Angular versions and interacting with the structure of the controls, or the data themselves was not type-safe. For example, you could write the following invalid code:
const emailDomain = login.value.email.domain;
Because there is no domain attribute on email, the above code does not compile with strictly typed reactive forms.
The types enable a variety of other benefits, such as better autocomplete in IDEs and an explicit way to define form structure, in addition to increased safety.
These upgrades are currently only applicable to reactive forms (not template-driven forms).
Developers can find further details in the Typed Forms documentation.
2) Standalone Components
Standalone components in Angular 14 make it easier to create Angular applications. By minimizing the requirement for NgModules, stand-alone components, directives, and pipelines strive to improve the authoring experience. Existing applications can adopt the new standalone style with no breaking changes.
The developer preview of the standalone component feature is now available. It’s ready to try; however, before it becomes stable, it may change.
Components, pipes, and directives can now be applied as standalone:true. NgModule declarations are not required for Angular classes defined as standalone (the Angular compiler will report an error if you try).
Instead of using NgModules, standalone components express their dependencies natively. If PhotoGalleryComponent is a standalone component, it can import another standalone component, ImageGridComponent, directly:
@Component({
standalone: true,
selector: 'photo-gallery',
imports: [ImageGridComponent],
template: `
...
`,
})
export class PhotoGalleryComponent {
// component logic
}
In addition to single directives and pipelines, imports can be used to refer to them. In this way, standalone components can be written without having to create a NgModule to manage template dependencies.
3) Streamlined Page Title Accessibility
Page titles used to be a simple, easy-to-understand way of delivering information about the page you’re on. Something new has been released in Angular 14 to ensure that the app’s page and title communicate well.
The entire process of adding titles in Angular 13 was aligned with the new Route.title attribute in the Angular router. However, Angular 14 does not include the necessary imports for adding a title to your page.
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