To make it easier for Angular developers to adopt new features, plans call for evolving Angular documentation to reflect the latest best practices along with increasing the visibility of features that help web developers meet their goals, and making it easy to adopt Angular in an existing stack. Adoption of new features would be made easier with schematics and increasing the visibility of features within and beyond the Angular community, Gechev said.
The latest releases of Angular have prompted growing excitement about new features, Gechev said. But Angular has had some rough times. “We acknowledge that Angular had a few tough years followed by what now people call the ‘Angular Renaissance,’“ Gechev said. The most recent release was Angular 19, which arrived in November with previews of incremental hydration and a route-level render mode.
Gechev also shared results from Angular’s developer survey for 2024, which drew close to 10,000 responses. The survey found that 79% of Angular developers are using the latest two major versions of Angular, 90% are using standalone components, directives, and pipes, and more than 80% are using built-in control flow. Close to 90% of the respondents reported being satisfied with the framework.