State of Angular 1

Presented by Lucas Mirelmann and Pawel Kozlowski at the 2015 ng-conf in Salt Lake City, Utah.

@pkozlowski_os and @lgalfaso

Slides located at: goo.gl/G5Kwkw

Releases

1.3

  • 14 weekly patch releases
  • 400+ commits in total
  • 90+ bugs fixed
  • few small features

1.4

  • 1.4.0-RC.0 next week after 6 beta releases
  • 35+ new features
  • 140+ bugs fixed
  • performance improvements

New in 1.4

  • The New Router
  • Internationalization
  • New ng-animate
  • ng-messages update
    • New ngMessages with multiple ‘includes’
    • More dynamic messages
  • ng-cookies improvements
    • Ability to set path and domain
    • Cleans up cookie update process
    • Closes one of the oldest and most commented open issues :-)
  • And much, much more…

Performance Boost

  • ~30% faster digest times vs 1.3
  • 2-4% memory footprint improvement (Less GC pressure)

Everyone should upgrade!

  • Very few breaking changes
  • Same browsers supported as in 1.3

Future

Angular 1.5

  • Work will start after 1.4.0 is out
  • Planning will happen in public
  • Community involvement is the key:
    • Comment/vote on issues you want to see fixed
    • Send pull requests

Preparing for Angular 2

  • Several modules will share between 1.5 and 2.0

Short release cycles

Call for Action (How you can help)

  • Add a feature
    • Contact us
    • Minimal set of changes per Pull Request
    • Unit tests
    • follow conventions
  • Work on issues
    • Write a Plunker or a failing test
    • broken at master?
  • Help closing issues and PRs when they are no longer valid/relevant